Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, spends his easy life among Rome's high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife - a woman he loved as an 18-year-old - his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes.

A dazzling, dizzying, mesmerising and hypnotic cinematic tour-de-force that has drawn comparisons with Italian greats such as La Dolce Vita and La Notte.

A triumphant return to form for world-renowned visionary director Paulo Sorrentino (Il Divo, This Must Be The Place).

Starring the multi award-winning Toni Servillo (Il Divo, Gomorrah).

Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2013, the film was hotly tipped for the Palme d'Or.