Video

Comedy, Drama

Rising Cinema: Rome

Original language: Italian, German, English, French, Latin, Spanish

Fellini's Rome

The project "Rising cinema: a new generation of European film ambassadors" invites you to see the best classic and contemporary European films, accompanied by lectures by film critic and historian Gediminas Jankauskas. The second film in the program, "Roma", is a love letter to the impressive city of Rome by Federico Fellini, one of the most famous directors of all time.

Travelogues, memoirs and unexpected cinematic spectacles converge in this kaleidoscopic letter to the eternal city by one of its most famous residents. One moment serene, the next breathtaking, Federico Fellini's urban fantasy interweaves memories of the director's youth in the Mussolini era and an impressionistic portrait of Rome in the 8s, where he and his film crew capture bustling cityscapes. The film shimmers with the material pleasures of food, nightlife, sex and hallucinatory church fashion shows permeated with glimpses of the monumental past, such as the Colosseum surrounded by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, and a statue of Caesar damaged by pigeons. Impressively combining documentary immediacy and extravagant artificiality, the director penetrates the myth and mystique of the Italian capital.

Director: Federico Fellini
Subtitles: Lithuanian
Year: 1972
Country: Italy, France
Runtime: 120 min
Rating: N-16
Starring: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence
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