Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
- Jep Gambardella: Toni Servillo
- Romano: Carlo Verdone
- Ramona: Sabrina Ferilli
- Lello Cava: Carlo Buccirosso
- Trumeau: Iaia Forte
- Viola: Pamela Villoresi
- Stefania: Galatea Ranzi
- Conte Colonna: Franco Graziosi
- Contessa Colonna: Sonia Gessner
- Stefano: Giorgio Pasotti
- Alfio Bracco: Massimo Popolizio
- Andrea: Luca Marinelli
- Arturo: Vernon Dobtcheff
- Talia Concept: Anita Kravos
- Guida Turistica: Roberta Cartocci
- Uomo Coppia Esibizionista: Lorenzo Gioielli
- Donna Coppia Esibizionista: Giulia Di Quilio
- Madre Chiostro: Monica Piseddu
- Ragazza Esangue: Anna Della Rosa
- Alfredo Marti: Luciano Virgilio
- Cardinale: Aldo Ralli
- Santa: Giusi Merli
- Assistente Santa: Dario Cantarelli
- Egidio: Massimo De Francovich
- Maestro del Cinema (uncredited): Giulio Brogi
- Orietta: Isabella Ferrari
- Cardinal Bellucci: Roberto Herlitzka
- Elisa De Santis: Annaluisa Capasa
- Ron Sweet: Ivan Franek
- Dadina: Giovanna Vignola
- Attore Fiction: Paolo Mazzarelli
- Donna Puzzole: Manuela Gatti
- Ballerina Ventilatore: Elisabetta Ventura
- Lorena: Serena Grandi
- Donna Adoro: Margherita Cornali
- Lillo De Gregorio: Lillo Petrolo
- Padre Basilicata: Ludovico Caldarera
- Madre Basilicata: Maria Laura Rondanini
- Carmelina: Francesca Amodio
- Suora Botox: Francesca Golia
- Ahé: Silvia Munguia
- Donna Botox: Stefania Barca
- Ragazza Botox: Gabriella Belisario
- Infermiera Pos: Melania Fiore
- Prete Funerale: Daniele Pilli
- Autista Pullman: Massimo Santangelo
- Ammiratrice Jep: Giorgia Ferrero
- Ammiratrice Jep: Alessia Bellotto
- Ammiratrice Jep: Giulia Maulucci
- Ammiratrice Jep: Caterina Scalaprice
- Contessa Festa: Maria Lovetti
- Cubista Festa Jep: Natalia De Maria
- Sebastiano Paf: Severino Cesari
- Polina: Agata Malyszko
- Dadina (voice): Cristina Aubry
- Fanny Ardant (uncredited): Fanny Ardant
- Pazzo al Parco (uncredited): Stefano Fregni
- Agente DIA (uncredited): Gianpiero Cognoli
- Invitata Festa Jep (uncredited): Yohana Allen
- Invitato Festa Jep (uncredited): Mirko Frezza
- Invitato Festa Jep (uncredited): Piero Gimondo
- Invitato Festa Jep (uncredited): Leo Mantovani
- Invitata Festa Jep (uncredited): Giulia Rinallo
Film Crew:
- Director of Photography: Luca Bigazzi
- Wigmaker: Aldo Signoretti
- Director: Paolo Sorrentino
- Production Design: Stefania Cella
- Screenplay: Umberto Contarello
- Original Music Composer: Lele Marchitelli
- Researcher: Lara Lucchetta
- Producer: Francesca Cima
- Producer: Nicola Giuliano
- Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli
- Foley: Mauro Eusepi
- Makeup Department Head: Maurizio Silvi
- Assistant Director: Jacopo Bonvicini
- Camera Operator: Daria D’Antonio
- Steadicam Operator: Alessandro Brambilla
- Key Hair Stylist: Marco Perna
- Sound Effects Editor: Mirko Perri
- Costume Design: Daniela Ciancio
- Makeup Artist: Matteo Silvi
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Alessandro Checcacci
- Assistant Costume Designer: Olga Michalowska
- Gaffer: Alessandro Saulini
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Rodolfo Migliari
- Assistant Costume Designer: Luca Canfora
- Assistant Costume Designer: Chiara Fabbri
- Assistant Costume Designer: Laura Maccarone
- Assistant Costume Designer: Chiara Nobile
- Still Photographer: Gianni Fiorito
- Underwater Camera: Aldo Chessari
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Enrico Barone
- Makeup Artist: Rossella Gregorio
- Casting: Annamaria Sambucco
- Assistant Editor: Francesco Di Stefano
Movie Reviews:
- Andres Gomez: Mesmerizing movie staging a decadent and beautiful Rome for a decadent character and greatly played by Toni Servillo. Great cast, nice decadent story and, overally, huge directing by Paolo Sorrentino.
- Asa_movies: Jep Gambardella: “The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They’re the best cause they go nowhere.
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This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It’s all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah… Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don’t deal with what lies beyond. Therefore… let this novel begin. After all… it’s just a trick. Yes, it’s just a trick.”
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From my point of view:
This may be definitely the best subset of art, applied at the best moment in the movie scene, at the best moment of our living at the beginning of the 21st century. All wisdom said in a couple of sentences, helping us to enjoy life, and understand this way of enjoying as much as we can. Anyway, we do not have any better way to beat the trick of living, than just relaxing, realizing we are part of the trick and we cannot change it.
So, just go on, time will pass! 🙂