Paolo Sorrentino - La grande bellezza - "I can't waste any more time"

"The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 is that I can&waste any more time doing things I don&want to do. When I came to Rome at the age of 26, I fell pretty swiftly into what might be defined as the whirl of the high life, but I didn&just want to live the high life, i wanted to be the king of the high life. I didn&just want to attend parties, i wanted the power to make them fail." Jep Gambardella (played by Toni Servillo) in Paolo Sorrentino - La grande bellezza (2013) The film opens with a quote from Céline&Journey to the End of the Night: "Traveling is very useful: it makes your imagination work, everything else is just disappointment and trouble. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength." After his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep Gambardella, a journalist with a passion for parties and beautiful women, finds himself lost between the nostalgia of the past and the uncertainty of the future. Jep realizes that he has lived superficially: so begins the search for great beauty, between the declining bourgeoisie and the stereotypes of society. For education purposes...