Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.
Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.
After his arthouse success The Great Beauty, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino assembled a stellar cast to explore aging and the tyranny of beauty. Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, and Paul Dano star in this aesthetically impeccable, languid chamber-spa drama. With a Jane Fonda cameo!