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Lecture "What Beauty Wears: Costumes in Paolo Sorrentino's Films"

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28.04.2026 · 19:00 · UTC+5
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Yekaterinburg
Ельцин Центр
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Paolo Sorrentino's cinema knows how to speak through the shine of fabric, the strictness of silhouette, and demonstrative luxury just as accurately as through the characters' lines. This lecture will show how the costume becomes an important part of the frame and helps to read power, age, vulnerability, beauty, and hidden internal conflicts. And in this lies its special expressiveness. In Paolo Sorrentino's work, the costume never exists as a decorative addition to the frame. Clothing in his films operates almost on par with editing, lighting, and music: it sets the rhythm, emphasizes the distance between characters, constructs the image of power, and reveals what the character would prefer to hide. This is why the conversation about costumes in his cinema quickly transcends fashion and turns into a discussion about the language of contemporary auteur cinema, where every detail is included in the overall emotional movement. The lecture will focus on "The Young Pope," "The New Pope," "The Consequences of Love," "Youth," and "Parthenope." This selection allows us to trace how the director works with different visual registers-from strict elegance to almost provocative luxury. Through the costume in his projects, status, age, body, loneliness, the habit of power, and the fear of losing beauty are read. Thus, clothing ceases to be a background and becomes a full-fledged dramatic tool that shapes character and enhances internal contradictions. Ideas on where to go in Yekaterinburg are collected on our website.

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