La Grande Belezza

The Great beauty is just that.  Tony Servillo is fascinating as bon vivant Jep Gambardella.  Weighing his relationships with his Fellini-esque coterie of friends and hangers on, his lavish party-all-the-time lifestyle and the implications of his 65th birthday he must now process that the unrequited love of his life has died and her diary has revealed that she had always been in love with him.  The superb screenplay, almost constant dialogue, is a masterpiece.  Rome, in daylight but mostly at night, is Servillo's co-star.  The art direction is gorgeous, the editting subtle, and the soundtrack diverse and completely appropriate.  But Tony Servillo!  And i want his wardrobe.