Word: fellinis
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...Fellini takes titillating male fantasies and reduces them to harpy-plagued nightmares. The film lingers on that fine line between seductress and snake--or between lechery and misogyny, depending on your point of view...
...Fellini does not dwell on any one episode long enough for the audience to set its PC compass. Snaporaz flits between aging but incorrigible Romeo and misunderstood old man. His female assailants behave with both sympathy and cruelty. The action lurches from suffragette rallies to phallus-filled boudoirs, from women-run dungeons to sexual fair-grounds for men. The movie builds its perspective on the pace and variety of many surreal sexual encounters, rather than a single moralistic take on the war between the sexes...
Unsurprisingly, many of these episodes must have meant more to a sixty-something Fellini in 1980 than to the average contemporary movie-goer. The vision of tightly tank-topped biker chicks possessed by a rock and roll frenzy looks more comic than frightening. The faint soupcon of lesbianism seems a little timid and fastidious by today's standards...
...FEDERICO FELLINI'S 1961 FILM La Dolce Vita, the mistress of the journalist played by Marcello Mastroianni castigates him and his photographer companion Paparazzo by telling them, "You're a lot of vultures! Don't you respect anything?" But even the celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi...
...think Almodovar is great; we concede that he's misogynistic, but we like him anyway. His movies are always really nice looking with lots of bright colors. That one actress he uses, the one with the crooked nose, has a weird and compelling face worthy of Fellini. She will be in the new movie, whose title we can't remember. Even better, Gaultier and Versace will be doing the costuming. Caramba...