Two special events will celebrate the work of Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino. The first will be a preview screening of a hitherto unreleased fifteen-minute film, entitled La fortuna, the segment he directed for the anthology film Rio, I Love You, part three of the “Cities of Love” project, after Paris, je t’aime (2006) and New York, I Love You (2009).

And in a tribute to the Neapolitan filmmaker, the tenth edition of the Rome Film Fest will close with the screening of an extended version of The Great Beauty, featuring 40 minutes of previously unreleased scenes.

RIO, EU TE AMO / RIO, I LOVE YOU- La fortuna (segment) by Paolo Sorrentino, Brazil, France, 2014, 15’

LA GRANDE BELLEZZA / THE GREAT BEAUTY by Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, France, 2013, 172’

Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Giorgio Pasotti, Roberto Herlitzka, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Isabella Ferrari