Item #: 8077 Category: FELLINI, FEDERICO Format: VHS MPAA Rating: PG

Woolly Rating: 5/10 (202 votes)

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JD	May 21, 2001 @ 12:39:36

LA PROLIJA PELÍCULA
THE SCENES WITH ANITA ECKBERG AND NICO ALMOST MAKE IT WOTH IT, BUT THIS IS ONE LONG, TALKY, PRETENTIOUS PUPPY. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'D EVER SEEN THIS. ITS UNBELIEVABLY BLAND FOR A FELLINI FILM, SORT OF LIKE "BARRY LYNDON" WAS FOR KUBRICK. I GUESS YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TIME AND PLACE (POST WAR FASCIST SPAIN) BUT ALL IT SEEMS TO SAY IS "I GOT PAID TO PARTY ALL THE TIME."

THE DISTURBING, FASCINATING DREAM WORLD OF ROME
This movie is hypnotically beautiful, quietly disturbing, and extremely funny. It's portrait of 1960 Rome (which is not in Spain) is the strongest evocation of a time and place ever committed to film. Marcello Mastriani is greatness personified in the lead. He's a reporter who covers the social set of Rome, who he worships even as they demoralize and ultimately dehumanize him. In a time when the word 'surrealism' has come to stand for MTV-influenced, computer generated attempts to be "trippy," it's good to still have movies that are this genuinely dreamlike. [It is rather long and episodic, and is also black and white and subtitled, so the attention-span deprived should approach with caution.]

THE DISTURBING, FASCINATING DREAM WORLD OF ROME
This movie is hypnotically beautiful, quietly disturbing, and extremely funny. It's portrait of 1960 Rome (which is not in Spain) is the strongest evocation of a time and place ever committed to film. Marcello Mastriani is greatness personified in the lead. He's a reporter who covers the social set of Rome, who he worships even as they demoralize and ultimately dehumanize him. In a time when the word 'surrealism' has come to stand for MTV-influenced, computer generated attempts to be "trippy," it's good to still have movies that are this genuinely dreamlike. [It is rather long and episodic, and is also black and white and subtitled, so the attention-span deprived should approach with caution.]

......(fades asleep)........
I'm going to make up an excuse for Fellini on why this film was so bad. I watched the "director's cut" VHS which really doesn't mean anything with the director it just means it's gonna be boring. I'm going to guess that the reason this film made me want to gouge my eyes for entertaiment was because the crap they put back in this classic needed to be out. Thus you are left with a great movie interjected with frivilous conversation scenes filled with pure bordom. If the box says "unedited" or "director's cut", here's a suggestion...watch Juliet of the Spirits instead.

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