Satyricon (1969)
(Fellini Satyricon)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col/scope 129m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone
Synopsis:
Two young friends in First century Rome argue over ownership of a boy slave and have various misadventures which include an earthquake, the abduction of a sacred hermaphrodite and the search for a cure for impotence.
Review:
Taking as his starting point Petronius's fragmentary text, Fellini includes Trimalchio's dinner party, its characters and some of its narrative, but by no means all of its depravity! What he also misses by a mile is the tone of urbane irony that characterized the writer's blend of satire and romance, written during the reign of Nero and interpreted as an oblique comment on it. Instead we get Fellini the showman, the reveller in life's grotesqueries. The incoherence, at least, is true to the source.
(Fellini Satyricon)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col/scope 129m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone
Synopsis:
Two young friends in First century Rome argue over ownership of a boy slave and have various misadventures which include an earthquake, the abduction of a sacred hermaphrodite and the search for a cure for impotence.
Review:
Taking as his starting point Petronius's fragmentary text, Fellini includes Trimalchio's dinner party, its characters and some of its narrative, but by no means all of its depravity! What he also misses by a mile is the tone of urbane irony that characterized the writer's blend of satire and romance, written during the reign of Nero and interpreted as an oblique comment on it. Instead we get Fellini the showman, the reveller in life's grotesqueries. The incoherence, at least, is true to the source.
(Fellini Satyricon)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col/scope 129m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone
Synopsis:
Two young friends in First century Rome argue over ownership of a boy slave and have various misadventures which include an earthquake, the abduction of a sacred hermaphrodite and the search for a cure for impotence.
Review:
Taking as his starting point Petronius's fragmentary text, Fellini includes Trimalchio's dinner party, its characters and some of its narrative, but by no means all of its depravity! What he also misses by a mile is the tone of urbane irony that characterized the writer's blend of satire and romance, written during the reign of Nero and interpreted as an oblique comment on it. Instead we get Fellini the showman, the reveller in life's grotesqueries. The incoherence, at least, is true to the source.