1972 · drama · comedy
Roma (Fellini)
Directed by Federico Fellini2h 0m1972
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Our read: Roma (Fellini) (1972) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- surreal
- signature
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How Roma feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want Fellini's sensory Rome essay—episodes, not plot—at a dreamlike pace.”
Skip it tonight — Plotless city portraits and brothel vignettes will lose you by minute twenty.
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