It is clear that the flowering of high culture, decadence and other goodies is now behind us, that is, if a stripper is necessarily 40-year-old and sitting on a Botox, and if a cheerful paratrooper then with the participation of fat women who smell bad from their armpits! Tolerance, motherfucker!
In this sense, the very idea of making a film about Rome, where the city and its nightlife will be in the foreground looks rather peculiar, simply because the peak of the success of this city is quite reflected in the Sweet Life and Rome by Fellini, the director with whose name is associated with the heyday of Italian cinema!
Paolo Sorrentino is a decent director, but hardly a genius, and therefore it is difficult to expect an adequate response from him to the classics! Before us 65-year-old writer Jepp Gambardella, once in his youth, wrote a successful novel “the human apparatus” and for 40 years living at its expense, and at the same time taking interviews debunking modern stars! He is an unquestionable intellectual, but the death of an old lover forces him to reconsider the meaning of life. And in a break from Botox injections, social funerals and parties, answer the question of who we are and why we exist in this world! Talking, talking, talking, talking.
As a result, Sorrentino made a story about a city dying of luxury and meaninglessness, a story about those who have forgotten about their roots, which reminds the 104-year-old saint who came to Rome to crawl on her knees up the stairs, giving redemption of sins that any even the most worthy person has!
Well, the best among the whole series of characters of the film for me is a Catholic cardinal, telling recipes with the intonation of a sermon!
9 out of 10
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