Fellini - Satyricon (1969)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Federico Fellini

Escritores:

Petronius (book)
Federico Fellini (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 marzo 1970 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Comedia | Drama | Fantasía | Horror | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

Rome. Before Christ. After Fellini.

Plot:

In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone...

Plot Keywords:

Earthquake | Hermaphrodite | Rome | Suicide | Decadence

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Ahem...

Reparto

Martin Potter	...	Encolpio
Hiram Keller	...	Ascilto
Max Born	...	Gitone
Salvo Randone	...	Eumolpo
Mario Romagnoli	...	Trimalcione (as Il Moro)
Magali Noël	...	Fortunata
Capucine	...	Trifena
Alain Cuny	...	Lica
Fanfulla	...	Vernacchio
Danika La Loggia	...	Scintilla
Giuseppe Sanvitale	...	Abinna
Genius	...	Liberto arricchito
Lucia Bosé	...	La matrona
Joseph Wheeler	...	Il suicida
Hylette Adolphe	...	La schiavetta

También conocida como:

Fellini Satyricon (UK) (USA)
Satyricon (France) (International: English title) (short title)
The Degenerates
Satiricon (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

128 min

País:

Italy | France

Idioma:

Latin | Italiano

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Italy:VM14 | Portugal:M/16 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Compañía:

Les Productions Artistes Associés

Trivialidades:

When asked why both the leading roles were played by foreign actors and not Italians, Federico Fellini replied. "Because there are no Italian homosexuals."

Citas:

Encolpio: Ascilto... what does the poet say? Each moment presented may be your last, so fill it up until you vomit... or something such?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Big Lebowski (1998)

Ahem...

"Satyricon" is among the weirdest and most colorful, larger-than-life movies I've ever seen, along with Erasurehead, Erendira, Santa sangre, Naked lunch... If you don't like these, don't even try "Satyricon".

On one hand, its many flaws are rather upsetting. The out-of-sync lipping (bad post-sync), the fact that the movie neither really tells a story nor evocates sensible moral or philosophical concepts... so one may say it's actually a dull movie. The violence in this movie doesn't seem to make real sense, neither does the homosexuality, neither does the "romanian decadence" portrait.

On the other hand, the scenography, the sets, the costumes and makup are among the most dazzling ones you'll ever see in cinema, and the cinematography... well... maybe the BEST one you'll ever see. I can't think of any another movie able to compete with "Satyricon"'s mindblowing cinematography. Each scene is a terrific picture, with several visual layers, extraordinary lights and focuses, a lot of invention, of visual flair, and the overall technical mastery is stunning.

The result is something mesmerizing for some, totally disgusting for others. I have to say I'm more on the mesmerized side, because I was mainly focused on the visual/meditative aspects of the movie, not on the narrative ones.

If you're really into cinema, I mean as an artistic media more than as entertainment, you MUST see "Satyricon", as it's to my sense the most *visually* outstanding movie ever made. Be prepared for some disappointment about the movie as a whole, though...