Category: Writing
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Roma (1972)
Fellini’s exploration of the Eternal City comes from two perspectives: the local, with the luxury of time, and the outsider, just passing through.
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The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Fellini’s final film follows a well inspector on an unusual journey, oscillating between past and present.
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
A powerful World War II drama following two upper-class Jewish families and their responses to the growing persecution.
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Intervista (1987)
A parody and celebration of the artifice of film and the construction of memory through storytelling.
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I Told You So (2023)
An atmospheric, though cluttered, ensemble piece set as a heat wave plagues Rome – in January.
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Gloria! (2024)
A charming, if not simplistic, imagining of the creation of pop music taking place in 1800, by orphan girls living at an institute.
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Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
A satire following an orchestra that gradually descends into anarchy, challenging the conductor’s role to keep his musicians in order.
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Fellini’s Casanova (1976)
The life and times of history’s infamous lover, portrayed as an aimless wanderer, devoid of meaning and connection.
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The Monster of the Opera (1964)
A riotous vampire tale repurposing “The Phantom of the Opera” to an abandoned theater, where the entire company battles an ancient curse.