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Apr 24, 2014 · Jep’s midlife crisis is provoked by the death of his friend’s wife (Elisa), a woman who was apparently Jep’s first love. We’re given occasional, fleeting, Marienbad -esque glimpses into Jep’s memory of his first romantic encounter with this young woman.
Dec 20, 2020 · In spite of having an elite friend circle, Jep’s life is devoid of the real beauty of life and his imaginations reach out to his first and only girlfriend. He desperately embraces the romantic memories of his boyhood.
Apr 18, 2014 · Jep is both an observer and participant in his decadent lifestyle; he dreams of his simpler, probably poorer, past life but revels with glee at his current glamourous lifesyle, so it is hard to get a true sense of where his real loyalty lies.
Jep is surrounded by several friends: Romano, a playwright who is perpetually on the leash of a young woman who exploits him; Lello, a mouthy and wealthy toy seller; Viola, a wealthy bourgeois and mother of a son with serious mental problems named Andrea; Stefania, a self-centred radical chic writer; Dadina, the dwarf editor of the newspaper whe...
May 21, 2013 · Our guide through this beautiful, decadent place is Jep Gambardella (Servillo), an ageing serial seducer and party animal who published a well-received novel years ago but now works as a society...
Sep 12, 2021 · Jep’s youthful imagination and ability to escape and elevate his day-to-day life is captured by his own literalised daydreaming in other surreal sequences – we see his bedroom ceiling transform into a sapphire-blue ocean view, and his memories of Elisa mirror dreams themselves as they flash by in vague but emotionally wrought sequences.
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Nov 15, 2013 · Jep is a 65-year-old celebrity journalist, a veteran fashion plate and ladykiller, who wrote an ambitious first novel 40 years ago and has spent his evenings since then at nightclubs, art...
