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March 2016 Favourites

March has ended and April is now here! I hope you all didn’t get pranked too badly on April Fool’s Day. March was another quiet month over here, but I do assure you that I got a lot of good reading done of some most excellent posts. Please find below a selection of my favourite […]

“Is it worth paying for a ticket?”: The Great Beauty (2013)

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2013) follows the daily and nightly life of Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), an infamous socialite living in Rome. In his 20s, Jep moved to Rome and wrote an extremely successful novella, which he has lived off ever since. Now, aged 65, the emperor of Rome’s nightlife, he comes face to […]