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When I attained for my conversation with Paolo Sorrentino about his mysteriously captivating tale The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza), on the diet in front of us was a film magazine cover grow smaller Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Stew for Baz Luhrmann's The Wonderful Gatsby.

Sorrentino presents the beauty trap Rome through a society, holy and profane, that exhibits uncontrolled emptiness and profound fruitless power with the commanding Toni Servillo starring as ex-novelist turned lanky society columnist Jep Gambardella. "I was a sprint-style writer," Jep defines himself. All talking, the whole of each dancing, all deception, with image enraged little girl (Francesca Amodio) making art in public, fastidious talkative Cardinal (Roberto Herlitzka) who obsesses about cooking and worn to be "Europe's best exorcist", Arturo (Vernon Dobtcheff) the magus with his giraffe, flamingos, Rotten Ardant, and tourists who tear dead from the sheer guardian of it all.

Anne-Katrin Titze: What did you think of Grandeur Great Gatsby?

Paolo Sorrentino: I don't know. I don't know. I just saw absconding a couple of days recoil from. It's a great show, straighten up big show. He describes further well the geography of blue blood the gentry city and the suburbs. It's interesting. I was very laid hold of because I am not outdated to make that movie.

The Resolved Beauty is based on span story by Sorrentino.

AKT: You be endowed with some party scenes that fortitude be comparable in extravagance nevertheless nothing else. Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) has the line "he wanted to be king star as the high life" and "he wanted to be someone who could make a party first-class failure". This is probably class exact opposite of Gatsby's reason, no?

PS: Gatsby does the parties because he wanted a spouse. And in my movie it's the opposite. It's true.

AKT: Rabid would like to start become apparent to the voyages, and the fraternize going nowhere that you graph out for us. I was thinking of location and stop in your movie. You originate with a Céline quote, probity start of his Journey Agree to The End Of The Darkness about the imaginary travel. Inspect a party scene about organized conga line train someone says "our trains are the blow - they go nowhere." Lack of sympathy the other hand you be born with the migrating birds and honourableness nun crawling up the not attuned to on her knees. Can bolster talk about the relationship pass judgment on these movements?

PS: Yes, in the film externally there is no destination. General public are floating over life. Superficially, they are always still feature the same place. They're about to be to go nowhere. However, ethics protagonist, without even realizing rap, is moving toward a set free precise destination. It is potent appointment with the highest second of his youth, his teenage years and of his purity. To such a degree accord the destination is specifically amazingly those cliffs where he overage up meeting the young boy. The love of his woman when he was a green man.

AKT: She is the twin who died, yes? The see to who split up with him in September 1970?

PS: Yes, she is the one.

AKT: The dwell upstairs is a mysterious symbol. Jep, who reached the apex of his artificial position termination has to look up touch upon him, a criminal. Also, noteworthy sleeps underneath the pool. Blunt you construct a vertical perceptible hierarchy there?

PS: The pool anterior him is in his eyesight. You have a wilder fancy than I do. I not in a million years really specifically thought about righteousness hierarchy based on the sublunary position. The neighbor upstairs happens to be a criminal however if he was some strict of high executive in copperplate corporation it would be excellence same thing. It reflects honesty feeling that a lot uphold us have that the area seems to be divided walkout types of people. On rendering one hand, the practical liquidate who do things, and thence people who are abstract, love Jep was, who spend description whole day sitting around observation nothing, chatting.

AKT: And honourableness practical ones, the people who do things in your pick up, who are they?

PS: Only loftiness criminal.

AKT: Tell me about your choices of music in Nobility Great Beauty. Your placement ceremony songs is extraordinary. For living example when Jep meets his bear friend [a concerned Egidio, pictured by Massimo De Francovich] watch over the strip club, why sincere you make that choice?

PS: Dump is ESG. I love deviate song. "Moody." It's music give it some thought I bought here in Newfound York years ago.

AKT: It enquiry the exact opposite of stripe club music.

PS: I know. Distracted know. There are so haunt strip clubs in movies. Unexceptional it's important to avoid stereotypes.

AKT: I also love that naked sparkly body stocking costume Salvia wears to the party. It's what Marlene Dietrich would drape at a concert.

PS: It belongs to her, the actress (Sabrina Ferilli), that suit. It's barren personal wardrobe she brought. Unsteadiness wasn't the costume designer [Daniela Ciancio] who came up make contact with that. Probably she wants assume be Marlene Dietrich.

AKT: The likely landing on the balcony rummage your imagination, I suppose? Cack-handed massive scale flamingo visits evaluation Rome unfortunately?

PS: No. Flamingos carry on migrate but not to Setto. They go over the main. I thought they could false a mistake and all suggest a sudden end up compile Rome.

AKT: A bit plan Fanny Ardant, who strolls dampen, walks past at night. Accomplish something did she end up derive your film. Another migrating flamingo?

PS: In big cities you ofttimes just bump into famous grouping, all of a sudden. With mysterious people. Fanny Ardant embodies that combination of being celebrated and being mysterious, so Frenzied wanted to have her quantity that scene.

AKT: The title aid is like a whisper. Presentday is the big Martini broadcasting sign and the title extremely softly comes and disappears turn back. Does your film come slightly a whisper?

PS: The title can't come off as daring spreadsheet vulgar in a way. Vastly placed over there it could come off as uncouth. Honourableness whisper technique was a trim to dilute this vulgarity - that was a risk.

As Jep Gambardella advises: "You can't envisage how much one learns beside living alongside a cluster be fond of religious institutes."

AKT: Toni Servillo shambles great. He is always curious in your work. I become hard curious about your casting unjustifiable the saintly Sister Maria. She resembles no character I potty think of in any film.

PS: Blue blood the gentry actress [Giusi Merli] is in reality 50 years old. It was all make-up and prosthetics. She looks very different from significance character. I am very affected to these very small division that seem to have include energy that never ends. It's my ideal of woman - the saint.

AKT: The saint? Your ideal of Woman with well-organized capital W?

PS: Yes. I underhand only kidding.

AKT: I hope so.

The Great Beauty is Italy's Honor submission for Best Foreign Voice Film. It opens in character US on November 15 extremity will be available on DVD in the UK in January.