The Great Beauty

A 65-year-old Roman journalist and socialite drifts through the city's parties, ruins, and ghosts, trying to understand why he never wrote his second novel. Sorrentino's Fellini-esque masterpiece — gorgeous, melancholic, and quietly devastating beneath its surface glitter. The opening party sequence is one of the great set pieces in 21st century Italian cinema. Won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.