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fellini satyricon
Year: 1970
Classification: Foreign Film - Italian

Directed:

- Federico Fellini

Actors/Actresses:

- Martin Potter
- Hiram Keller




Rome before Christ. After Mind-Altering drugs.

In the late 1960's Federico Fellini created one of the most beautiful and at the same time disturbing films ever made. Watching each frame is like gazing into a bizarre painting. I am honestly surprised that Salvador Dali didn't have anything to do with this film. It tells the epic tale of a Roman student's journey through a nightmarish landscape chock full of weird characters and even weirder events. With all the extras, costumes, and set designs, there is so much for the eyes here it is truly unbeleivable. The most disturbing thing I caught about the film is how characters will look into the camera in a frozen stare. It makes you feel as if you are right there. My favorite scene is when Encolpius battles the Minotaur, I don't think I will ever get that chanting out of my head. There is a constant undercurrent of humor that most viewers might not get at first, so you really need to read between the lines. The cinematography is nothing short of perfection thanks to Giuseppe Rotunno accompanied by an always eery music score by Nino Rota. The intense experience you get from this film is unlike anything in film history. Its just one of those great films that shakes you up and leaves you pondering it for hours, days, even years. Its influence can be seen in films like Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits", "Brazil" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"; as well as the Shakespeare adaptation "Titus" and even the more recent film "The Cell". I recommend Fellini Satyricon for fans of abstract or surreal art and set design who can see past the disturbing plot and appreciate a true masterpiece of cinema.


Fragments of beauty

Just a few lines about a milestone of cinema (many others have written more and better about it than I do).BR>The book of Satyricon by Petronius has come only in non-coherent fragments to our time, and for that, it's the only adequate form Fellini choose to make this film, and shouldn't be critisized or mistaken as confusing pretentiousness and extravaganza.BR>Of course, it's not a "realistic" depiction of ancient Rome - it would be rather ambitious for any director to reconstruct authentically one of the many "lost worlds" - "Barry Lyndon" is still one of the best movies trying this impossible task. It's a brilliant idea of Fellini to show us bizarre and exotic images obviously deriving from all kind of cultures to remind us what an abyss of time and change separates us from the literature of antiquity.BR>Finally, one of the messages of the movie is strongly political: the future belongs to youth and freedom, while the old and corrupted bourgeosie is even eating the dead for money.BR>Well, call it naiv, call it nostalgic, but I think every lover of good cinema should have seen this beautifully set movie, even if it's just for listen to sequences in latin and ancient-greek, spoken by italians and greeks of our time...!


This movie is terrible

This was the first and the last Fellini movie I will ever purchase. The movie is totally incoherant. I do not see what is so compelling about this movie. It was a waste of my time.






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