In 1972, Frederico Fellini released his film, Roma, a surreal ode, a sensory travelogue, an alternate history of the psychic aura of the place he loved.
In the film, we travel above ground, below ground, get stuck in anarchistic traffic jams that turn into open warfare riots viewed from the table of a cafe while calmly having a drink. He opens doors and passages into hidden worlds. One door opens and we are guests at an Ecclesiastical Fashion Show with a soundtrack by Nino Rotti.
4 comments:
Surreal alright, I wouldn't mind seeing the whole film, with subtitles, I don't speak Italiano.
I have to say that Rome was the most fun place I ever visited, the mad traffic, the blatant rudeness, the ostentatiously pious mixing with the con artists around the Vatican.
You need lots of that good coffee they have to keep up with it all.
Rory
I saw the film, with subtitles in 1972 in Toledo, Ohio. I went with 3 friends and we were the only people in the theater.
There was a version of this on YouTube with English subtitles, but the quality of the image was terrible...
You don't need subtitles to understand "The Little Sisters of The Temptations of Purgatory" do you?
Fellini's work is weird and beautiful at the same time.
This clip is in Spanish, though.
oh.....thanks mike!
Too bad the Italian one with the english subtitles was such bad quality.
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