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'''''Roma''''', also known as '''''Fellini's Roma''''', is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic [[comedy-drama]] film depicting director [[Federico Fellini]]'s move from his native [[Rimini]] to [[Rome]] as a youth. It is formed by a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only character to develop significantly is Rome herself. Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini, and the film features mainly unknowns in the cast.
'''''Roma''''', also known as '''''Fellini's Roma''''', is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic [[comedy-drama]] film depicting director [[Federico Fellini]]'s move from his native [[Rimini]] to [[Rome]] as a youth. It is formed by a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only character to develop significantly is Rome herself. Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini, and the film features mainly unknowns in the cast.

==Plot==
Federico Fellini recounts his youth in [[Rome]] an extremely crude, corrupt, cruel, without shame or morals. Memorable is the scene where he along with his friends young teens goes to a third-class theater to see some simple shows. People do not applaud: whistles, burps, makes noise, fart whistles and angry against the poor actors who at some point have had enough of that vulgar and unprecedented rudeness, starting to turn to whistle against the public.

==[[Alberto Sordi]]'s performance==
During assembly was taglaita a scene with [[Alberto Sordi]] because it was considered too immoral and cruel. In fact, he played a rich man who was sitting at a bar to watch the din of some poor kids who are playing ball. A poor man blind, sick and lame, dumb even stick, cross the street, preventing the gay rich to contemplate the scene. Alberto Sordi, annoyed, shouting insults against the Roman dialect: "Ugly old, get out of the way because I allow users to view! Get out!".


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 14:06, 15 September 2013

Roma
Original film poster
Directed byFederico Fellini
Screenplay byFederico Fellini
Bernardino Zapponi
Story byFederico Fellini
Bernardino Zapponi
Produced byTuri Vasile
StarringPeter Gonzales
CinematographyGiuseppe Rotunno
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byNino Rota
Carlo Savina
Production
companies
Distributed byItal-Noleggio Cinematografico (Italy)
United Artists
Release date
  • 16 March 1972 (1972-03-16)
Running time
128 minutes
119 minutes (Cut edit)
CountriesItaly
France
LanguagesItalian
German
English
French
Latin
Spanish
Box officeITL869,900,000

Roma, also known as Fellini's Roma, is a 1972 semi-autobiographical, poetic comedy-drama film depicting director Federico Fellini's move from his native Rimini to Rome as a youth. It is formed by a series of loosely connected episodes. The plot is minimal, and the only character to develop significantly is Rome herself. Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini, and the film features mainly unknowns in the cast.

Plot

Federico Fellini recounts his youth in Rome an extremely crude, corrupt, cruel, without shame or morals. Memorable is the scene where he along with his friends young teens goes to a third-class theater to see some simple shows. People do not applaud: whistles, burps, makes noise, fart whistles and angry against the poor actors who at some point have had enough of that vulgar and unprecedented rudeness, starting to turn to whistle against the public.

Alberto Sordi's performance

During assembly was taglaita a scene with Alberto Sordi because it was considered too immoral and cruel. In fact, he played a rich man who was sitting at a bar to watch the din of some poor kids who are playing ball. A poor man blind, sick and lame, dumb even stick, cross the street, preventing the gay rich to contemplate the scene. Alberto Sordi, annoyed, shouting insults against the Roman dialect: "Ugly old, get out of the way because I allow users to view! Get out!".

Cast

  • Peter Gonzales as Federico Fellini, age 18
  • Fiona Florence as Dolores - young prostitute
  • Pia De Doses as Princess Domitilla
  • Renato Giovannoli as Cardinal Ottaviani
Uncredited

Historical contrasts and modern alienation

Fellini repeatedly contrasts Roman life in wartime Fascist Italy with its counterpart in the early 1970s. The wartime scenes emphasize the congregation of neighbors in Rome's public places such as street restaurants, a variety show, and a bomb shelter. With the exception of hippies and a conversational scene with Fellini bemoaning the loss of Roman life with radical students, the analogous congregations of the 1970s are between automobiles and motorcycles. Fellini makes a comparison between the parade of prostitutes at wartime brothels and a fantasy runway fashion show featuring clerical garb and a papal audience.

Narrative devices

The plot (such as it is) centers on two journeys to Rome by the director. The first is as a young man in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The second is as the director of a film crew creating a movie about Rome. The film alternates these two narratives.

Release

The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.[1] The film was also selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Roma". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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