Italian director Paolo Sorrentino was in Hollywood this month to promote his latest movie, which he is hoping will make it on to the foreign film Oscar nominees' shortlist. In an interview with AFP ahead of the Friday US release of "The Great Beauty," he told how its setting in Rome gave him a particular challenge -- forgetting how masters such as Fellini captured the Eternal City before him. "The Great Beauty" evokes the decline of one side of Italy through the eyes of a cynical journalist played by Sorrentino's favorite actor Toni Servillo. Sorrentino, from Napoli, said the Italian capital was the obvious choice to set his latest project -- but acknowledged the shadow of all the greats led by Fellini who have brought Rome to the big screen.
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