A well-known Neapolitan writer returns to their hometown after a long absence and encounters an old friend known as Caracas. Caracas, once a neo-fascist skinhead, is now converting to Islam.
羅馬，夏日，一隊穿梭其中的游客。這座美得令人窒息的古老城池，正以一種神秘而冷艷的姿態誘惑著他們，讓人心甘情愿地被這份精致得令人絕望的美麗所俘獲，沉醉其中。然而在捷普·甘巴爾代拉（托尼·瑟維洛 Toni Servillo 飾）眼中，羅馬卻是一座寂寞之都。65歲的捷普是一名成功記者，風度翩翩、魅力十足。年輕時代撰寫的一本文學作品讓他在早年就名利雙收。他輾轉在各樣肆意妄為的奢靡與觥籌交錯的社交之中，用一雙冷酷到幾近麻木的雙眼，目睹這座絕美之城背后的空虛與隱秘。當女高音的詠嘆調再次響起，游走在平民生活與上層社會之間的捷普，開始重拾那些逝去的青春記憶，只有羅馬之城仍依舊著她的冷漠與華美，不曾改變。 本片斬獲2014年第86屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳外語片及2014年第71屆金球獎最佳外語片兩項大獎，并入圍2013年第66屆戛納電影節主競賽單元-金棕櫚獎。
The story revolves around a G8 meeting, held at a luxury hotel on the German coast, where the world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk (Servillo), invited by Daniel Rochè (Auteuil), the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. But the next morning, Rochè is found dead.