Lost in Criterion

Spine 702: The Great Beauty

Lost in Criterion · Aug 7, 2026 · 2h 11m

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Paolo Sorrentino's 2013 film The Great Beauty is in line with many an Italian film we've seen, a story of a middle aged man having an existential crisis. Like many a Fellini film, this crisis is also a crisis of art, a crises of self as expressed in art. Oh and parties. So many parties. A positively Slurms MacKenzie level of parties.

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