Posted by marci.l.angevine@Vanderbilt.Edu on Friday, September 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone.

Presented by: Andrea Mirabile, Associate Professor of Italian
Italy, France (2013) A journalist has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. When his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, he finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past his extravagant life to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. A visual banquet, it was the winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese with English subtitles. Blu-ray. 142 minutes. Funding provided by the Department of French & Italian.