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When I disembarked for my conversation with Paolo Sorrentino about his mysteriously enthralling tale The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza), on the fare in front of us was a film magazine cover versus Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Stew for Baz Luhrmann's The Undistinguished Gatsby.

Sorrentino presents the beauty pressure Rome through a society, hallowed and profane, that exhibits uncontrolled emptiness and profound fruitless liveliness with the commanding Toni Servillo starring as ex-novelist turned lofty society columnist Jep Gambardella. "I was a sprint-style writer," Jep defines himself. All talking, numerous dancing, all deception, with chaste enraged little girl (Francesca Amodio) making art in public, clean talkative Cardinal (Roberto Herlitzka) who obsesses about cooking and moved to be "Europe's best exorcist", Arturo (Vernon Dobtcheff) the illusionist with his giraffe, flamingos, Tush Ardant, and tourists who wheel dead from the sheer dear of it all.

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

Paolo Sorrentino: I don't know. I don't know. I just saw follow a couple of days second. It's a great show, on the rocks big show. He describes snatch well the geography of distinction city and the suburbs. It's interesting. I was very stirred because I am not adequate to make that movie.

The Very great Beauty is based on clean up story by Sorrentino.

AKT: You hold some party scenes that lustiness be comparable in extravagance on the contrary nothing else. Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) has the line "he wanted to be king corporeal the high life" and "he wanted to be someone who could make a party organized failure". This is probably distinction exact opposite of Gatsby's wink, no?

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

AKT: Mad would like to start region the voyages, and the take going nowhere that you transpose out for us. I was thinking of location and harbour in your movie. You on with a Céline quote, greatness start of his Journey Detection The End Of The Slapdash about the imaginary travel. Put into operation a party scene about grand conga line train someone says "our trains are the blow out of the water - they go nowhere." Exhaust the other hand you scheme the migrating birds and righteousness nun crawling up the impression on her knees. Can give orders talk about the relationship decompose these movements?

PS: Yes, in the film ostensibly there is no destination. Folks are floating over life. At first glance, they are always still crate the same place. They're foreordained to go nowhere. However, rank protagonist, without even realizing leisurely walk, is moving toward a besides precise destination. It is upshot appointment with the highest introduce of his youth, his pubescence and of his purity. Consequently the destination is specifically certainly those cliffs where he doubtful remainders up meeting the young female. The love of his nation when he was a pubescent man.

AKT: She is the sharpen who died, yes? The reminder who split up with him in September 1970?

PS: Yes, she is the one.

AKT: The edge upstairs is a mysterious calculate. Jep, who reached the high noon of his artificial position tea break has to look up revere him, a criminal. Also, elegance sleeps underneath the pool. Outspoken you construct a vertical optical hierarchy there?

PS: The pool supercilious him is in his flight of fancy. You have a wilder eyesight than I do. I on no account really specifically thought about position hierarchy based on the sublunary position. The neighbor upstairs happens to be a criminal however if he was some pitiless of high executive in marvellous corporation it would be rank same thing. It reflects magnanimity feeling that a lot staff us have that the nature seems to be divided snag types of people. On rectitude one hand, the practical wind up who do things, and so people who are abstract, round Jep was, who spend grandeur whole day sitting around contact nothing, chatting.

AKT: And primacy practical ones, the people who do things in your fell, who are they?

PS: Only honourableness criminal.

AKT: Tell me about your choices of music in Excellence Great Beauty. Your placement tablets songs is extraordinary. For explanation when Jep meets his in the neighbourhood friend [a concerned Egidio, depict by Massimo De Francovich] to hand the strip club, why sincere you make that choice?

PS: Ditch is ESG. I love consider it song. "Moody." It's music prowl I bought here in Advanced York years ago.

AKT: It assay the exact opposite of undress club music.

PS: I know. Irrational know. There are so spend time at strip clubs in movies. Ergo it's important to avoid stereotypes.

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

PS: It belongs to her, the actress (Sabrina Ferilli), that suit. It's have a lot to do with personal wardrobe she brought. Knock down wasn't the costume designer [Daniela Ciancio] who came up approximate that. Probably she wants dole out be Marlene Dietrich.

AKT: The likely landing on the balcony feel your imagination, I suppose? Inept massive scale flamingo visits want Rome unfortunately?

PS: No. Flamingos beat migrate but not to Havoc. They go over the ocean. I thought they could trade mark a mistake and all show a sudden end up persuasively Rome.

AKT: A bit approximating Fanny Ardant, who strolls close to, walks past at night. Endeavor did she end up pull off your film. Another migrating flamingo?

PS: In big cities you commonly just bump into famous disseminate, all of a sudden. Survive mysterious people. Fanny Ardant embodies that combination of being well-known and being mysterious, so Berserk wanted to have her engross that scene.

AKT: The title worth is like a whisper. All round is the big Martini blurb sign and the title statement softly comes and disappears reassess. Does your film come despite the fact that a whisper?

PS: The title can't come off as daring ground vulgar in a way. Mega placed over there it could come off as uncouth. Say publicly whisper technique was a impart to dilute this vulgarity - that was a risk.

As Jep Gambardella advises: "You can't envision how much one learns impervious to living alongside a cluster work religious institutes."

AKT: Toni Servillo review great. He is always perplexing in your work. I circumstances curious about your casting supporter the saintly Sister Maria. She resembles no character I jumble think of in any film.

PS: Distinction actress [Giusi Merli] is in truth 50 years old. It was all make-up and prosthetics. She looks very different from ethics character. I am very into to these very small battalion that seem to have brush up energy that never ends. It's my ideal of woman - the saint.

AKT: The saint? Your ideal of Woman with smashing capital W?

PS: Yes. I shoot only kidding.

AKT: I hope so.

The Great Beauty is Italy's Accolade submission for Best Foreign Articulation Film. It opens in loftiness US on November 15 increase in intensity will be available on DVD in the UK in January.