Fellini - Satyricon

Fellini - Satyricon
by Federico Fellini

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Actor: Hiram Keller, Mario Romagnoli, Martin Potter, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Director: Federico Fellini
Brand: POTTER,MARTIN
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno
Writer: Federico Fellini
Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
Writer: Bernardino Zapponi
Writer: Brunello Rondi
Writer: Petronius
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of Fellini - Satyricon

DVD Review: Amazing Classic
Summary: 5 Stars

If you are a fan of film, and haven't seen this (most people haven't), then GET IT! I enjoy this much more than 8 1/2. Simply astounding that Fellini was able to have this produced. The scale is ENORMOUS. Only Peter Greenaway gets away with anything this elaborate anymore.

DVD Review: Bizarre work of genius
Summary: 5 Stars

There is nothing like Satyricon that I've ever seen (ok, except maybe The Serpent's Egg, which is very shocking and disturbing). Visually orgiastic, pagan, sadistic, earnest, creepy, and disgusting; but also featuring some of the most beautiful actors ever to stand in front of a lens.

To me, this is by far the most interesting and arresting of Fellini's films.

DVD Review: So far out that it's in
Summary: 5 Stars

I exhibited this film when it was first released. Fellini had always been a favorite director. What creative imagination he had. This has two young good looking men in ancient days, Hiram Keller and Martin Potter. There is a lot of homosexual situations and a real cast of characters. I love this film and it is at the top of my list of favorites. The last DVD transfer was very good. Satyricon will be a film remembered for many years.

DVD Review: Hogwash
Summary: 1 Stars

Fellini Satyricon is self-indulgent, and made as though everyone on the crew were wasted.

The film can't seem to decide whether it wanted to be filmed in English or in Italian. Some of the actors are clearly speaking in English, but were dubbed (poorly) into Italian. It comes across as haphazard and unnecessary. The acting itself is over-the-top to begin with.

The visuals are excessive as well. Although it intended to show the excesses of Roman life, it does so in such a blunt, repetitive way that it insults the viewer. How many times do we need to see animals sliced open and plates full of snouts? Or people farting or drinking to excess? Or people grabbing for Gitone? It lacks the creativity, wit, subtlety and imagination that the original book may have had (which I have not read).

Surrealism is much more creatively handled by films such as Un chien andalou, and sadly, Satyricon is even more confusing than that. The plot attempts to take on the fragmented remains of the book, but it ultimately leaves the viewer confused. Supposedly the film is about redemption, but the film has few, if any, redeeming qualities, thanks to Fellini's autocratic and heavy-handed approach.

DVD Review: Dude, it's Fellini
Summary: 5 Stars

Creepy.
Disturbing.
Weird.
Fellini takes us to ancient Rome in Satyricon; a world of greed, lust, and gluttony.
I don't want to kill it for anyone, but if you are open for an eerie adventure, check it out.

Description of Fellini - Satyricon

Encolpius is a Roman student who begins by arguing with his friend Ascyltus over the affections of androgynous youth Giton. Ascyltus wins, whereupon Encolpius embarks upon an odyssey, partaking in a drunken orgy and being kidnapped by a bisexual sea captain and his concubine. Encolpius eventually rejoins Ascyltus to visit a suicidal Roman couple, join in a plot to kidnap a "sacred" hermaphrodite, and much more. Loosely based on the book "Satyricon" by Gaius Petronius, the "Arbiter of Elegance" in the court of Nero, Federico Fellini wrote and directed this tongue-in-cheek hymn to the "glories" of pagan times via a bizarre journey through the decadence and debauchery of Nero's Rome.

Trippy is as trippy does, even when you're talking about a movie set in ancient Rome. This 1969 Fellini opus was among the most visually arresting entries in a year when the psychedelic experience was trying to claw its way into every movie coming down the pike. But Fellini, in telling a negligible story about two young men tasting the various pleasures of Nero's hedonistic and priapic reign, aimed for images that jarred as well as seduced. He found humor in freakishness, contrasting beauty and ugliness while effortlessly passing judgment on the emptiness of a life devoted to sensation and personal freedom. More of a fever dream than a linear story, Fellini Satyricon crystallized the director's reputation as a visionary--but may have trapped him into spending the rest of his career (with the exception of Amarcord) trying to top himself in reaching new levels of outrageousness. --Marshall Fine

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