![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The anthropological analysis of the film’s plot and its dialogues aims to demonstrate that film and novel alike, show the existential crisis of an individual: in the novel, the protagonist’s crisis is transfigured into the feeling of tedium and deals with the problem of possessing Cecilia’s body in the film, it is symbolised by the upsetting relationship with beauty and is mediated by the languages of memory, love and the sacred. Both works are homodiegetic narrations of their respective protagonists’ memories both focus on their artistic failure and psychological distress both of them connect failure and distress with a desperate love. This article proposes to read the 2014 Oscar Prize winning film La grandeīellezza, by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, alongside Alberto Moravia’sġ960 novel La noia, taking as a starting point the similarities between the works’ protagonists: Jep Gambardella, an eccentric failed writer, in Sorrentino’s film, and Dino, a painter who quits painting and is involved in a troubled love story, in Moravia’s novel. ![]()
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