Apologies for referring to the film as “the grand beauty”. It’s actually, “the great beauty”, but I’m used to the Italian title. Didn’t want to attempt saying it in Italian and so got mixed up…but I truly hope you’ll give this movie a watch! Ps: also apologies for the Freudian slip at minute 4:00, when i refer to the film as a novel (and i say “encounts” instead of encounters.
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At the funeral, the movie gives hints...the young dead man is Jep's secret biological son. Hints: the mother confronts Jeff to do something, anything about her son mental troubles...the young man is the only character in the movie able to dialectically outsmart Jep in a conversation, Jep explains to her lover before the funeral who can and can not show grief. Jep was the biological father.
One of my favourite films as well. The first moment with the saint reminds me of Alenka Zupancic's "Poverty is not to be understood. It is to be avoided." Although the saint doesn't "avoid" poverty herself, either way, it is not possible to speak of it, and here I think Jep identifies with the impossibility of writing. The funeral scene is, for me, very ambiguous. I don't think that Jep deliberately tried to "make the party fail", as in his usual projects, but at the same time, I don't think he conceded to the "richness of life" either. I think the crying was still part of his facade, at least initially, though maybe Jep identified with his tears only later, as he was half way down the isle, carrying the coffin. On an unrelated note: when I watched the movie, they translated Jep's book title as "The Human Apparatus". There is something so striking about this exact title, as if it were the modern version of "the spirit is a bone". In Jep's case, even his life of nothingness requires an intricate "apparatus" to function, yet still we are able to identify the "haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty".
I left a comment on one of your previous videos and you responded by recommending me this movie. It was so wonderful and (unsurprisingly) beautiful. I couldn’t thank you enough.
@@julianphilosophy please do, I find them so insightful. I’ve always wondered what Lacan would think of the recent film “Challengers” by Luca Guadagnino, unfortunately I know little about both Lacanian psychoanalysis or film criticism. If you get the chance I’d highly recommend you watch it! (I hope it isn’t too presumptuous of me to ask you to watch and review a film, especially if you end up not enjoying it lol)
Excellent discussion. I kept thinking you would draw upon Lacan's enigmatic notes on beauty (i.e. that beauty is the last attached-idea before one encounters the Real -- [if I remember that more or less right]...) .. thanks again!
I'm learning Italian so I planned to watch this movie before. After this video I definitely have to watch it. It is very hard to find something to believe in and pour your heart into it. Nothing is black and white, it's so easy to look at somebody that is trying to accomplish something and criticize. When you start criticizing everything, it paralyzes you, you don't dare to even try.
Thanks for the rec, I’ll have to give it a watch this weekend. If you haven’t seen it, Office Space is a favorite of mine and explores many of these themes, just with a bit less…opulence.
Durring the whole video I was thinking that you looked and sounded familiar, and your name was familiar as well. But i was too focused on the video to recognise you on the spot. I guess I just got used to seeing under a lamp's light :D
Hi Julian - any chance you can make a lecture or short video explainer of Lacan's concept of the Theft of Enjoyment? seems very appropriate to do given Trump's 2nd term win and the grievances shared by the white middle and working class who mainly voted for him
Jay MaInerney, Martin Amis and of course, many others... were men who produced a significant tome and then lived off it. A little bit like Sorrention's 'often collaborator' Umberto Contarello life... a sort of semi-autobiographical glimpse. Some might say, a Citizen Kane riff on wealth, regret and the loss of youth. Pity for Sorrentino it didn't win the Palme d'Or - an official stamp of approval would've cemented his reputation. Someone like Spielberg ( the jury president ) would've seen the film for what it was... a well made, professional, pastiche of a Fellini film. Now it is caught within a reputation of being 'all surface'. By the gaggle of movie critics that are cinemas lifeblood. An idiosyncratic look at the splendid surface, yet ultimately meaninglessness of the rich living 'in and off' Romes high society. The inclusion of music was masterful, but may also have highlighted the films surface appearance... as being a long music video. A possibly 'cold' film... with no direct, human entry into the characters inner lives. It is, what it is... a stunning look into nothingness.
I thought the actual protagonist was Rome and the story was about its decline, casting a look to the past beauty that is still around, but not promising new modern beauty any time soon - because of the shallowness of the people. Got bored, very bored while watching this. Sorry; maybe yet another man struggling to face old age is not exactly the most appealing theme for a female viewer.
Apologies for referring to the film as “the grand beauty”. It’s actually, “the great beauty”, but I’m used to the Italian title. Didn’t want to attempt saying it in Italian and so got mixed up…but I truly hope you’ll give this movie a watch!
Ps: also apologies for the Freudian slip at minute 4:00, when i refer to the film as a novel (and i say “encounts” instead of encounters.
also at 0:30 the novel is not titled "the human condition" but "the human apparatus", still, grand video, thanks
@julianphilosophy Hi Julian! I love your Content! I send you a bussines inquiry per Insta because I didn't know how to reach you. I would appreciate an answer! :) Best wishes! Patrick
At the funeral, the movie gives hints...the young dead man is Jep's secret biological son.
Hints: the mother confronts Jeff to do something, anything about her son mental troubles...the young man is the only character in the movie able to dialectically outsmart Jep in a conversation, Jep explains to her lover before the funeral who can and can not show grief.
Jep was the biological father.
Nice!
One of my favourite films as well. The first moment with the saint reminds me of Alenka Zupancic's "Poverty is not to be understood. It is to be avoided." Although the saint doesn't "avoid" poverty herself, either way, it is not possible to speak of it, and here I think Jep identifies with the impossibility of writing. The funeral scene is, for me, very ambiguous. I don't think that Jep deliberately tried to "make the party fail", as in his usual projects, but at the same time, I don't think he conceded to the "richness of life" either. I think the crying was still part of his facade, at least initially, though maybe Jep identified with his tears only later, as he was half way down the isle, carrying the coffin.
On an unrelated note: when I watched the movie, they translated Jep's book title as "The Human Apparatus". There is something so striking about this exact title, as if it were the modern version of "the spirit is a bone". In Jep's case, even his life of nothingness requires an intricate "apparatus" to function, yet still we are able to identify the "haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty".
I left a comment on one of your previous videos and you responded by recommending me this movie. It was so wonderful and (unsurprisingly) beautiful. I couldn’t thank you enough.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for trusting my recommendation. I want to do more cinema videos here
@@julianphilosophy please do, I find them so insightful. I’ve always wondered what Lacan would think of the recent film “Challengers” by Luca Guadagnino, unfortunately I know little about both Lacanian psychoanalysis or film criticism. If you get the chance I’d highly recommend you watch it! (I hope it isn’t too presumptuous of me to ask you to watch and review a film, especially if you end up not enjoying it lol)
Excellent discussion. I kept thinking you would draw upon Lacan's enigmatic notes on beauty (i.e. that beauty is the last attached-idea before one encounters the Real -- [if I remember that more or less right]...) .. thanks again!
I'm learning Italian so I planned to watch this movie before. After this video I definitely have to watch it. It is very hard to find something to believe in and pour your heart into it. Nothing is black and white, it's so easy to look at somebody that is trying to accomplish something and criticize. When you start criticizing everything, it paralyzes you, you don't dare to even try.
Thanks for the rec, I’ll have to give it a watch this weekend.
If you haven’t seen it, Office Space is a favorite of mine and explores many of these themes, just with a bit less…opulence.
Office space is great
Durring the whole video I was thinking that you looked and sounded familiar, and your name was familiar as well. But i was too focused on the video to recognise you on the spot. I guess I just got used to seeing under a lamp's light :D
Do you have a new camera? Looks good.
Okay you convinced me, I'm watching this movie today:)
How do you view Megalopolis? if you seen it
The vibrations speak to me.. i would be interested to hear your thoughts on his hbo series "the young pope"
I’m obsessed with that show.
My favorite film ❤
Great film. And a world class soundtrack !!!
Sorrentino’s playlists are incredible! I actually have a limited edition vinyl pressing of the young pope soundtrack and it’s just so good
Hi Julian - any chance you can make a lecture or short video explainer of Lacan's concept of the Theft of Enjoyment? seems very appropriate to do given Trump's 2nd term win and the grievances shared by the white middle and working class who mainly voted for him
Side note: your videos would benefit from a better microphone designed for such set ups (podcast etc). They are quite affordable today
Jay MaInerney, Martin Amis and of course, many others... were men who produced a significant tome and then lived off it.
A little bit like Sorrention's 'often collaborator' Umberto Contarello life... a sort of semi-autobiographical glimpse.
Some might say, a Citizen Kane riff on wealth, regret and the loss of youth.
Pity for Sorrentino it didn't win the Palme d'Or - an official stamp of approval would've cemented his reputation.
Someone like Spielberg ( the jury president ) would've seen the film for what it was... a well made, professional, pastiche of a Fellini film.
Now it is caught within a reputation of being 'all surface'. By the gaggle of movie critics that are cinemas lifeblood.
An idiosyncratic look at the splendid surface, yet ultimately meaninglessness of the rich living 'in and off' Romes high society.
The inclusion of music was masterful, but may also have highlighted the films surface appearance... as being a long music video.
A possibly 'cold' film... with no direct, human entry into the characters inner lives. It is, what it is... a stunning look into nothingness.
I thought the actual protagonist was Rome and the story was about its decline, casting a look to the past beauty that is still around, but not promising new modern beauty any time soon - because of the shallowness of the people. Got bored, very bored while watching this. Sorry; maybe yet another man struggling to face old age is not exactly the most appealing theme for a female viewer.
Haven't seen this film for a long time but this was my memory, of slight characterisation and "the male gaze" which occurs a lot in his movies.
What kind of topic does appeal to female viewers? I thought mortality and getting old are human phenomenons that everyone can relate to
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It got flagged so I’ve cropped it.