This movie is remarkable in many, many ways. It's both so easy yet so difficult to understand it. I've never seen any movie like it. You have to see the movie until the very end to understand it.

The first time I saw the movie, I saw it in 4 parts. The reason I did that is because it was very hard for me to keep watching it. I kept on waiting for the story to start, but then it hit me when I was in the middle of the movie: it's already started, because there is no story. It's a movie without a story, because it tells the great beauty. And until the very end, I disliked the movie. But seeing the ending, I realized what the movie truly was about. I've never seen any movie like it, because it's hard to get that a movie doesn't contain a story. That it's about nothing. And everything.

Watching the movie a second time, I loved it way more then the first time. I knew what it was about, I knew there was nog story, I knew what was going to happen. And yet, the very ending surprised me all over again. Still, I kind of disliked the whole movie, yet loved and loved and loved the ending. It's weird how after that, I still think this is a one in a billion kind of movie. This truly is a story about _la grande bellezza_ and it's a remarkable one.

Despite my very strange yet strong feelings towards this movie, it consists of great acting, powerful music and a wonderful ending scene and ending sequence.