“The Great Beauty” director honoured
The Italian capital has bestowed honourary citizenship on film director Paolo Sorrentino after “The Great Beauty” – in which Rome is used as a huge, mesmerising film set – triumphed at the Oscars. Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino said Sorrentino deserved the honour for “making Rome and the whole country proud.”
“The Great Beauty” (La Grande Bellezza) this month became the first Italian film to win in the foreign language category since Roberto Benigni's “Life is Beautiful” in 1999.
Keen to make the most of the global interest the film has aroused, the city council has unveiled a series of itineraries for tourists and locals keen to follow in the debonair steps of Jep Gambardella, the protagonist of the film.
Source: Guardian
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