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Roma
From 1971. Federico Fellini, up to his old tricks as usual. A few nostalgia set-pieces are mixed in with cinema verite and fly on the wall documentary stuff about Rome's past and present, as it looked in the very early 70s. It ought to be just an interesting failure, but it's interesting enough to transcend failure.
Most interesting scene: a bizarre "ecclesiastical fashion parade" for priests and nuns, which hovers midway between affectionate ragging and really quite vicious satire, before taking off into a different direction altogether.
The scenes of the digging of Rome's metro system, and visits to a military brothel circa 1940 both echo (surely deliberately) Metropolis.
As for Felllini's depictions of the Romans of his youth (part of it is a fictionalised depiction of his coming to Rome as a young man at the very beginning of the war), well only one word will do: grotesque.
But even though it's of it's time (1971, as seen in the shots of hippies lolling about on the Spanish steps, only to later get battered off the streets by The Pigs, Man) it still stands up - even though it shouldn't. They don't call it the eternal city for no reason.
From 1971. Federico Fellini, up to his old tricks as usual. A few nostalgia set-pieces are mixed in with cinema verite and fly on the wall documentary stuff about Rome's past and present, as it looked in the very early 70s. It ought to be just an interesting failure, but it's interesting enough to transcend failure.
Most interesting scene: a bizarre "ecclesiastical fashion parade" for priests and nuns, which hovers midway between affectionate ragging and really quite vicious satire, before taking off into a different direction altogether.
The scenes of the digging of Rome's metro system, and visits to a military brothel circa 1940 both echo (surely deliberately) Metropolis.
As for Felllini's depictions of the Romans of his youth (part of it is a fictionalised depiction of his coming to Rome as a young man at the very beginning of the war), well only one word will do: grotesque.
But even though it's of it's time (1971, as seen in the shots of hippies lolling about on the Spanish steps, only to later get battered off the streets by The Pigs, Man) it still stands up - even though it shouldn't. They don't call it the eternal city for no reason.
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In the first couple of minutes there is a report on TV News of a naked man running around stabbing people. He is described as 'white, circumcised...' I felt I was in safe hands at that moment, and I was.
And dull. So, so dull. (I seriously couldn't take much more by that point.)
