Word: fellinis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by FEDERICO FELLINI...
Screenplay by FEDERICO FELLINI...
...Fellini has found the vein again...
...lacks. With the tough elegance and self-assurance of a top whore in a classy joint, she adds a crucial dimension of sensuality and realism. Salome's bawdy repartees offer Wertmuller just the link she needs to trigger off comic scenes. Her vivid style is distinctly reminiscent of Fellini (with whom she worked on "8 1/2"), especially in portraying the banter and gossip of twenty girls gorging themselves at dinner...
Unfortunately, the film lacks real visual unity. It is lavishly lit by Giuseppe Rotunno (cinematographer also for Fellini and Visconti), but the camera seems to move almost haphazardly, framing the characters with less care than they are acted. Besides excellent performances by Gianinni and Polito, there is a feisty characterization of a queenly whore by Mariangela Melato...