After a visit to a street festival and some on-camera interviews, the film concludes with shots of motorcycles driving by the Colosseum. A small boy in love with Rome grows up to film the city in all its charismatic chaos. In one famously surreal segment, groups of clergymen gather together for a Catholic fashion show spectacle. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Throughout this journey there are visits to an outdoor restaurant, a movie theater, a music hall, and a brothel. Federico Fellini, Writer: Le notti di Cabiria. He also incorporates segments of Roman history and problems in the government, including an improvised speech from Gore Vidal. The events that follow switch between the past and contemporary times, including a story line that involves a 1970s film crew making a movie about Rome. Played by Peter Gonzales at age 18, the young Fellini moves in to a tenement building and explores the wild characters living in neighborhood. Played by Stefano Mayore as a child, he visits the city with classmates and becomes infatuated. It flows from episode to episode, beginning with the director’s early years arriving in Rome in 1931 during the time of Mussolini. Roma, directed by Federico Fellini, 1972, 128 min.įellini’s Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a mixture of real-life footage and fictional set pieces.

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