The Great Beauty (Italy 2013, 2 hrs 20 mins)

A Great Beauty is a character study which presents the City of Rome through the eyes of Jep, a charming, smug writer who, apart from one novella written long ago, never writes anything. Jep is brilliant, witty and perceptive and infuriating. He has spent his life charming the celebrities and literati of Rome, and working the nightlife scene of the city. However, as he turns 65, he starts to take stock of his life turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome itself, in all its monumental glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty." (The Criterion Collection) The film is beautifully filmed and won the Academy Award for Best International Feature. A must see for those devoted to good film making.