Read Marc Lee’s review of the Oscar-winning black comedy starring Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in American BeautyPhoto: Film Stills By Marc Lee Comments Marc Lee reviews a classic that every film-lover will want to own To reveal that the central character in American Beauty does not make it as far as the closing credits is not to spoil the ending. In the opening sequence, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) reveals his fate matter-of-factly in voiceover as the camera swoops down from the heavens into the leafy suburban street where he lives. He tells us he is 42 and that “in less than a year I’ll be dead… In a way I’m dead already.” Though his job is decent, it’s dull, and his immaculately appointed home is the battleground for the three-way war of attrition in which he is engaged with his estate-agent wife (Annette Bening) and surly teenage daughter (Thora Birch). He feels, he says, “sedated”. But Lester’s final few months will prove to be the best of his life. He quits his job, wangling a huge pay-off by blackmailing his boss, and buys a ridiculous red sports car.
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Though the character of Jep Gambardella, brought to vivid life by the director’s frequent star Toni Servillo, is not based on any specific person, he has the ring of a familiar type. Sorrentino and his co-writer Umberto Contarello worked from years of notes and observations to concoct a self-described misanthrope who wrote a single novel, “The Human Apparatus,” some 40 years ago before becoming a journalistic chronicler and fixture of the demimonde intersection of the art world, night life and high society. “Maybe it is a metaphor for Rome,” Sorrentino said. “The underlying theme of the film is not so much the decadence of Rome and all that, it really has to do with this fact that people deep down, as horrible, bizarre and gross as they can be, deep down they all have a fragility. And people living that life are trying brazilian wax pics to find a way to distract themselves, with gossip, being frivolous, going to stupid parties and all that.” PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of movies and TV Though his previous film 2011’s English-language “This Must Be the Place” in which a gothed-out Sean Penn played a rock star turned Nazi hunter cost more to make, Sorrentino declared “The Great Beauty” to be his most ambitious film. (The new film was made for between $12 million and $13 million, a healthy budget for a contemporary Italian film.) It was Sorrentino’s most successful film yet at the Italian box office. The opening party sequence alone required some 300 extras a night over three nights of shooting.
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