Word: fellini
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...fault seems to be primarily one of conception. Wanda, in Miss Loden's characterization, is a little like Fellini's Cabiria. She is used, victimized and deserted by men in a series of bitter, occasionally funny vignettes. But in Fellini's exquisite parable, Cabiria's tragic flaw was her humanity and innocence; Wanda can blame her woes only on what very often seems like stupidity, a trait readily conducive to personal, but not dramatic tragedy...
...even makes a pilgrimage to visit Fellini-whose 81/2 he toys with emulating-only to discover the director eschews his emulation and-more devotedly to his art than his self-wants simply to return to his editing machine...
...Fellini Satyricon, an American journalist named Eileen Lanouette Hughes strives for Rossian statement, and fails quite obviously. Hughes, a Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...
What is worst of all is that nearly everyone involved, Hughes included, is desperately trying to make sense out of Fellini's genius, taking themselves so seriously that they are failing miserably. Ross could have made an intelligent farce out of the spectacle of set designers and hairdressers, love children and La Mama actors rationalizing Fellini's social-psychological-religious urges while the director himself thumbs his nose at every available theory. But Hughes never quite conquers her awe of the proceedings, a flaw compounded by her cinematic illiteracy. (At one point, she refers to the famous film director Luigi...
...least the sycophants during Huston's heyday were Runyon-esque characters, always possessed of a half-funny story to heal the pain of compromised filmmaking. In On the Set of Fellini Satyricon, the sycophants pretend to be intellectuals. Tragically that is how they are sometimes accepted...