MOVIES : La Dolce Vita
This is Fellini's most famous movie, and 'required' viewing for Italians, and people learning Italian (such as Jo). A flim with this sort of reputation has to be seen if possible, so Jo and I went along on Saturday afternoon.
This was not necessarily the best time for me to go. Let me see; StreetCar Named Desire, Black Narcissus, and I'm sre there is at least on other 'exemplar' black and whiter that I've fallen asleep in on a Saturday afternoon. Fortunately I only missed out on 2 'episodes', the children seeing the madonna and the one after that (which I _really_ missed). Fortunately since the movie is episodic and a 'pastiche' it didn't ruin the film for me.
Both Jo and I did have a problem with the thing that you could predict we would have a problem with; the very episodic nature of the film. The scene in which his best friend has topped himself cuts suddenly to a post divorce party, no time for pathos here, just get onto the next episode.
Because of it's nature it didn't even seem necessary that the episodes were chronological, and possibly weren't. And so it ends up being an exploration of a society and a person, and that's what it's supposed to be, I guess that's just not what works for me.
For me, the most amazing thing was how up to date it all felt. The paparazzi, the drunken parties. If the film had been released yesterday I think it would fit in quite well, some people (like me:) wouldn't pick it for being 44 years old.
It's films like this you need to read a good review of before you go.
This was not necessarily the best time for me to go. Let me see; StreetCar Named Desire, Black Narcissus, and I'm sre there is at least on other 'exemplar' black and whiter that I've fallen asleep in on a Saturday afternoon. Fortunately I only missed out on 2 'episodes', the children seeing the madonna and the one after that (which I _really_ missed). Fortunately since the movie is episodic and a 'pastiche' it didn't ruin the film for me.
Both Jo and I did have a problem with the thing that you could predict we would have a problem with; the very episodic nature of the film. The scene in which his best friend has topped himself cuts suddenly to a post divorce party, no time for pathos here, just get onto the next episode.
Because of it's nature it didn't even seem necessary that the episodes were chronological, and possibly weren't. And so it ends up being an exploration of a society and a person, and that's what it's supposed to be, I guess that's just not what works for me.
For me, the most amazing thing was how up to date it all felt. The paparazzi, the drunken parties. If the film had been released yesterday I think it would fit in quite well, some people (like me:) wouldn't pick it for being 44 years old.
It's films like this you need to read a good review of before you go.
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