# 97

for a movie with almost no cohesive plot, this one hit the nail right on the head. an absolutely stunning piece of work, beautiful, well acted, written, and the direction is paramount. i almost think that if this did have a traditional plot it might not be as good as it is now, and it is good.

"This veers from the heartfelt to the satirical, the scathing to the loving, the funny to the melancholy - in short, it's everything that great cinema should be."

A bunch of morons making fart jokes and yelling at each other. Although the score is lovely it can't redeem this.

82

So full of life.

A great celebration of all things that are alive, touching and visually charming. Slow paced if you're not used to Fellini, though. This is easily better than 8 1/2 to me.

Several vignettes involving different stories in an Italian town that ultimately amount to nothing.

my favourite Fellini. it shares the podium with 8˝.

By turns dull, disgusting and juvenile. If anyone ever says Fellini's just high brow artsy stuff you can show them this because the humor is as low-brow as it gets: Fart jokes, sex jokes, really jokes about any kind of bodily functions permeate the entire movie and not a single one is worth even a chuckle. As for the the rest of the movie's content it's weak, disjointed and boring and, frankly, at times insulting. The photography is the only good thing here, but even that's only above average.

Fellini's magic unleashed

Remarkable,Charming,Excellent.

The mother of all interlocking movies. Fascinating in all the different stories, Fellini manages to portrait a town and make it seem like the viewer also lived in it. Nostalgic is the best word to describe this amazing movie.

Fellini in his essentially worm intellectual sensibility depicts his childhood in romantic colors without trying to make it more beautiful.It is his sincerity that guides us into his world and to Italy before WWII,and we can experience that world while watching the movie.His perspective is one of the observer,never attempting to interfere.Great music accompanies this very human,very genuine movie painting.

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