Na przekór przemijaniu : Roma aeterna w filmach Paola Sorrentina

Abstract

The article depicts images of Rome in four films of Paolo Sorrentino: The Family Friend (L’amico di famiglia, 2006), The Divine (Il Divo, 2008), The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza, 2013) and Them (Loro, 2018). Director, on the one hand, shows the socio-political and artistic collapse of the city, on the other, presents the modern version of idea of Roma aeterna. However, eternity in Sorrentino´s works is not associated with military power nor religion, but with aesthetic. Eternal beauty of Rome contrasts with contemporary chaos in all analysed films, but at the same time – especially in The Great Beauty – it becomes an antidote against existential crisis and the passing of time.