I enjoyed this 2013 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film from Italy although it bored Bronwen. It owes much to Fellini as it chronicles Rome’s superrich and mostly bored, foolish, banal, and sometimes very talented intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals and faux-prelates as they party and perform (what’s the difference?) their lives away. It’s viewed through the eyes of Jep, a 65-yo critic and writer. It is, by turns, frightening, silly, spiritually empty and searching. There are no ‘normals’ in this world of great beauty, his world. I found it cinematically stunning and quite gripping, although this won’t be for everyone