The Excess of Devotion: Luca Guadagnino's Joie de Vivre is a Marathon that Overstays its Welcome Luca Guadagnino's seven and a half hour documentary on Bernardo Bertolucci, Joie de Vivre, defies easy categorization.
It's part homage, part history lesson, and part indulgent personal essay, with a sprawling narrative that dances across five decades of Bertolucci's career.
Guadagnino's sensibilities are better suited to the world of fiction, where creator and subject boundaries are clearly defined.