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<\/a><\/p>\nLet me state right here and now that I haven\u2019t actually seen La Grande Bellezza<\/strong> (The Great Beauty), directed by Paolo Sorrentino. But after it was screened at the Cineforum here in Pontremoli I began to hear some feedback from friends: <\/p>\n Alda<\/font>: \u201cLa fotografia \u00e8 bellissima, le immagini stupende, gli attori bravissimi, d\u2019accordo, ma della storia di questa gente non me ne potrebbe fregare di meno\u201d<\/strong> (The photography is wonderful, the images absolutely beautiful, the actors excellent, sure, but I couldn\u2019t give a damn about the story of those people)<\/p>\n Chiara<\/font> (had already seen it on TV): \u201cCinque minuti e ho girato\u201d<\/strong> (Five minutes and I changed channel)<\/p>\n Maria Grazia<\/font>: \u201cLa prima parte mi ha scioccata \u2026 tutte quelle orge, quelle abbuffate, una vita cos\u00ec vuota e basta. Poi la seconda parte, quando si \u00e8 inserita la storia della Ferilli, allora si \u00e8 capito che c\u2019era una storia. Allora mi \u00e8 piaciuto, la seconda parte mi \u00e8 piaciuta\u201d<\/strong> (The first part shocked me \u2026 all those orgies, all that stuffing food in, such an empty life and that\u2019s it. Then in the second part, when Ferilli\u2019s story came in, then you realised that there was a story. Then I liked it, I liked the second part)<\/p>\n Nicoletta<\/font>: \u201cSono d\u2019accordo sulla prima parte del commento di Maria Grazia, cio\u00e8 che all\u2019inizio \u00e8 scioccante e solo nella seconda parte del film si capisce la storia, ma non ho ancora deciso se mi \u00e8 piaciuto\u201d<\/strong> (I agree with the first part of Maria Grazia\u2019s comment, that at first it\u2019s shocking, and only in the second part of the film you understand the story, but I still haven\u2019t decided if I liked it)<\/p>\n Annalisa<\/font>: \u201cNon riesco a catturarlo, ma qualcosa di bello c\u2019\u00e8\u201d<\/strong> (I can\u2019t grasp it, but there is something beautiful in it)<\/p>\n Vilma<\/font>: \u201cIl film \u00e8 bello perch\u00e9 \u00e8 aperto ad ogni interpretazione, sia positiva che negativa. Ad ogni personaggio puoi dare un significato che per un altro spettatore sar\u00e0 diverso. La Grande Bellezza \u00e8 bello perch\u00e9 ogni persona pu\u00f2 vedere nel personaggio di Toni Servillo (che tra parentesi \u00e8 un attore eccezionale) tutto quello che vuole. L\u2019apertura del film con questa danza cos\u00ec frenetica e dissoluta ha un duplice significato per me, rappresenta il disordine italiano, ma i colori, che sono bellissimi, nella grande confusione c\u2019\u00e8 per\u00f2 bellezza, la bellezza di un creato\u201d <\/strong>(the film is lovely because it\u2019s open to any interpretation, both positive and negative. You can give a meaning to each of the personalities that\u2019s different from the meaning of someone else who\u2019s seen it. The Great Beauty is good because everyone can see in the character played by Toni Servillo (who is an \u2018exceptional actor\u2019) anything they want. The opening of the film, with the mad riotous dance, has a double meaning for me, it represents Italian disorder, but the colours, which are lovely \u2026 in the great confusion, there is however beauty, the beauty of a creation)<\/p>\n Everyone seemed to agree on one point: \u201cTroppo lungo!\u201d<\/strong> (Too long!)<\/p>\n There has also been a lot of criticism of the film on Italian social networking sights, as shown by the following chart from La Repubblica<\/strong> online newspaper.<\/p>\n