Fellini @ 100: "Roma" (1972)
Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 5:00PM A few volunteers from Team Experience are revisiting Federico Fellini classics for his centennial. Here's Cláudio Alves...
If Rome is the Eternal City, then Federico Fellini might be the Eternal Filmmaker. His cinema exists outside of time, both ancient and strangely new. A filmography that's a circus of pleasures where the grotesque and the beautiful are hand-in-hand, always dancing to a song of transgression and perversity. The faith of the church and the clown's laughter coexist too, precariously, but assuredly, and the images their communion produce are profane marvels. Like ancient frescos, there's a patina of age to these pictures, but they're bright as if they were freshly painted by master artists.
Perhaps no single film better exemplifies these wonderful contradictions than Fellini's Roma…
