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Thursday, October 18

Italian Instructor's Film Favorites
La grande bellezza – The Great Beauty (2013)
Time:
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Presenter:
Department of French and Italian
Location:
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
International Week along with Department of French & Italian
Contact:
Lorraine Denman
Contact Email:
denman@pitt.edu

Prof. James Coleman will present one of the best Italian films of the last decade, the Academy Award-winning La grande bellezza.

From Rotten Tomatoes:
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.