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The 1969 Italian classic by Italian master filmmaker, Federico Fellini (8½, La dolca vita). Loosely based on Petronius' work, Satyricon...
The 1969 Italian classic by Italian master filmmaker, Federico Fellini (8½, La dolca vita). Loosely based on Petronius' work, Satyricon is a series of satirical and surreal episodes set in imperial Rome.
Fellini explained Satyricon: "I am examining ancient Rome as if this were a documentary about the customs and habits of the Martians." More cryptically, he said his goal was "to eliminate the borderline between dream and imagination: to invent everything and then to objectify the fantasy; to get some distance from it in order to explore it as something all of a piece and unknowable."
Critic Roger Ebert says of the film: "Fellini's film is a fantastical journey to a pre-Christian Rome that resembles no civilization that ever was, in heaven or on Earth. And it is a masterpiece. Some will say it is a bloody, depraved, disgusting film. But Fellini Satyricon is a masterpiece all the same, and films that dare everything cannot please everybody."
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76 %34 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
75 %9,727 reviewsAudience score rating
"Federico Fellini presents an incredible fresco-like vision of Rome's social structure 2,000 years ago in which survival and pleasure were man's sole motivating forces."
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Variety
Variety"It is a surreal epic that, I confidently believe, will outlive all its interpretations."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It is so much more ambitious and audacious than most of what we see today that simply as a reckless gesture, it shames these timid times. Films like this are a reminder of how machine-made and limited recent product has become."
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Roger Ebert
Roger EbertFellini - Satyricon | Details
- Rating
- M, contains violence & sexual references
- Runtime
- 128
- Genre
- Drama, Fantasy
- Country of origin
- Italy
