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Roma
1972 · Film · 120 min
Directed by Federico Fellini
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
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Ahh, time for a rambling ode to cinema of the days past and the Italian Cinema course I audited at Purdue from the incomparable Ben Lawton: Although I have admired Antonioni's great shots (l'Avventura is picture perfect, that final shot! And this one: https://kinorotterdam.nl/content/uploads/2022/04/Lavventura-10.png) and the head games of Bergman (I find The Silence to be the least suffocating among his films although I also like Fanny and Alexander, too) I've always been a Fellini person, since the day I watched La Dolce Vita. He can be over the top (e.g. Amarcord and Roma) but to this day I cannot watch the last sequence of Otto e mezzo without tearing up. Lawton also introduced me to Lana Wertmüller, who does not seem to be as well known as she deserves. If you have the chance, watch her controversial Swept Away.
My wife and I both love cinema, so we tried to get our son interested in it, to little effect ... until he started watching Criterion on his own. He started to watch Kurosawa's movies because they were "samurai movies" but got hooked! We're now having discussions about his characterizations in The Hidden Castle and other movies.
If you can spare some time I very strongly suggest to subscribe to Criterion streaming, at least for a few months ($10/mo in the US) to discover the old gems.
> When archaeologists opened up the under layer, they found a Madonna, probably 8th century, which then decayed before their eyes (horror!) due to exposure to the air.
There is a scene of this in Frederico Fellinni’s Roma if anyone has patience for a 2 hour long comedic dramatic film in which the main character of the film is Rome itself
Reminds me of what I consider one of the most beautiful scenes in film from Federico Fellini's Roma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjtst-Vr87A