Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781567301960
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1567301967
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Running Time: 138 minutes
Sales Rank: 17816
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 08, 1981
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Rating:  - Baroque, incisive and devastating satire about beliefs and disbeliefs!
"City of women" is another fantastic journey, a surrealist portrait of what the bizarre mind of Fellini is capable to make.
The initial sequence of the train entering into the tunnel is much more than a simple metaphor or explicated allusion, a genial lobby before this messy universe crowded of women makes its appearance, a demolishing and controversial film that simply is beyond any label you try to search.
Watch the genial sequence in the room surrounded by monitors of women of all kind. It's possible the jewel of the crown.
Another hallucinating fantasy of the great Fellini the freest of all the directors ever born.
Rating:  - A garish, overly-indulgent collage of sexual stereotypes
Marcello, our mild-mannered protagonist of few words and thick glasses, follows a femme-fatale off a train into the wilderness, only to find himself in what he describes, baffled, as a "feminist convention." Angry Italian women chant, do yoga, put on plays, and screech about male oppression and abolishing fellatio. Marcello wanders through the strange world, completely overwhelmed by high-pitched laughter and the garish stereotypes unfolding around every corner.
The tale takes on a fairytale quality as Marcello meets a lecherous old woman who claims she's taking him back to his train, but really intends to (and partially succeeds in) molesting him. Also in fairytale fashion, he finally finds refuge in a mysterious castle owned by the male stereotype from the opposite end of the gender spectrum: a gun toting, hunting-dog-owning, bath-robed, bearded man who does nothing but boast about his sexual exploits. Here Marcello attends a party which seemingly intends to contrast as much as possible with the "feminist convention."
Then suddenly his girlfriend Elena appears at this party and bitterly screams accusations at him, only to just as suddenly disappear and be replaced by a pair of giggling bikini-clad girls. Then the story looses all semblance of structured plot as Marcello careens through a burlesque-style reenactment of all the childhood memories that shaped his sexual psyche. Then the pace is slowed as he is forced to face angry hordes of women again, who relentlessly ... Read More
Rating: - Marcello, the stud and the women - another Fellini-esque carnival
Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), riding on a train, follows a beautiful woman from his compartment into the restroom. He convinces her to make love to him there, but as they begin, the train stops at a station and she says that it's her stop. She leaves, but Snaporaz is not going to let this nice piece get away so easily. He begins to follow her into the forest - and so Snaporaz begins his bizarre journey into Federico Fellini's "City of Women."
This is not a film with much dramatic structure. Rather, we follow Snaporaz on his strange journey from one surreal situation to another - some of it dreamlike and pleasant, others nightmarish and terrifying. In the forest he comes to a hotel where a feminist convention is being held, eludes a hoard of roller skaters, is nearly raped by a sex-starved middle aged woman, goes for a weird joy ride with a car full of lesbians, seeks refuge in the home of a super stud, is confronted by his estranged wife, is accosted by female police officers dressed like SS storm troopers, gets to dance like Fred Astaire with a pair of barely clad beauties, etc.
I thought that the film started a bit slowly, but once I got into it I was enthralled throughout by the bizarre imagery and the spectacle of it all. Mastroianni does a fine job as Snaporaz, displaying emotions ranging from child-like joy to terror. Much of this is a puzzle to him and he just doesn't know what to make of it. Some important supporting characters are his wife (Anna Prucnal) ... Read More
Rating: - Fellini's most underrated film....and completely insane (creatively, anyway)
I love this film. I think it's as good as the great Fellini films (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita). There are moments of incredible magic throughout, and it's vividly cinematic. Some of Fellini's greatest sequences (like the one when Snaporaz goes down the slide into an "amusement" park) are pure Fellini magic. The cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno is magnificent. It is one of Fellini's most inventive and surreal pictures (which, for him, is really saying something). The 138 minute running time just flies by. Many critics said that Fellini never made a good film after Amarcord, but they are so wrong. Almost every latter day Fellini film (even The Voices of the Moon, which never got a proper release in this country) has some elements in it that could only be brought out by the great Maestro. This film (along with And the Ship Sails On and Intrevista) are amongst Fellini's forgotten films, which is a shame, since they are well worth watching. See this one. It's amazing filmmaking...
Rating: - Excellent. Recommend Highly.
I like it a lot. I watch this movie about 3-4 times a year.
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