Fellini’s Roma

Fellini’s Roma is a view of Rome from the memories of the critically acclaimed director before World War II. Federico Fellini (director of four Oscar®-winning Best Foreign Language Films—1956’s La Strada, 1957’s The Nights Of Cabiria, 1963 8 1/2 and 1974’s Amarcord) presents a fantasy-laden experimental journey based on images and sequences inspired by the filmmaker’s remembrances. The painting-like photography and dazzling imagery is beautiful to look at with the settings shifting from outdoor banquets to music halls, subterranean tunnels to bordellos, all en-livened by Fellini’s unique style and imagination. If there is a message to his audacious pomp it is along the lines of the film’s ad lines which billed it as “the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, 1931-1972!”