100 years to the day after Fellini’s birth, the UK premiere of Cineteca di Bologna’s new 4K restoration of the Italian director’s lavish love letter to the Eternal City.
Arriving in 1930s Rome during the time of Mussolini, ‘Fellini’ (Peter Gonzales) arrives to an eccentric boarding house. Pleasures of gastronomy and the flesh, the sacred and profane, saturate a portrait of the physical and psychic city as the film proceeds into the present (1971), finding Roman ruins, a new ring-road, brothels, hippies and even – in the unforgettable ‘Ecclesiastical Fashion Show’ – roller-skating priests.
Featuring cameos from Gore Vidal and Anna Magnani, Fellini’s open, episodic collage of fantastical tableaux conjures a truly idiosyncratic piece of exuberant cinema.
This screening is introduced by Alessandro Carrera, director of Italian Studies at the University of Houston, Texas, and author of Fellini’s Eternal Rome.
Due to popular demand there is an additional screening of Fellini's Roma on Sun 26 Jan.
Italy, France 1972 Frederico Fellini 130 min
Curated by the Architecture Foundation
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