For anyone who loves cinema and hasn’t yet watched this picture, The Great Beauty is a definite must-see. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last year, it is written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino and centres on contemporary Rome as seen through the eyes of  ‘Jep Gambardella’, a charming, self-absorbed and ageing socialite who once wrote a successful novel in his twenties. Jep seems happy to drift contentedly towards mortality, when a chance meeting dramatically changes this mindset and reignites a passion in him to re-examine his connection with the city and to look again at the challenging issues of aging, legacy, beauty and creativity. This movie has critics comparing Sorrentino to Fellini. Come and see why.