Roma

A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Nella storia dell'antica Roma nessun personaggio appare più misterioso, affascinante, dibattuto, amato e odiato di Nerone - imperatore matricida, accusato di essere il mandante del grande incendio di Roma del 64, e nello stesso tempo discepolo di Seneca e appassionato di canto e arte greca. Ma Nerone era davvero un pazzo, una sorta di sociopatico e megalomane, o era piuttosto un precursore della politica-spettacolo che tanto va di moda oggi? Era un innovatore dei costumi e della cultura dell'epoca o era invece un uomo tormentato da un malessere intcriore che lo spingeva a primeggiare a ogni costo?…

Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director’s young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice, Roma penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy’s storied capital, a city Fellini called “the most wonderful movie set in the world.”

Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director’s young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice, Roma penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy’s storied capital, a city Fellini called “the most wonderful movie set in the world.”

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital.

Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director’s young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice, Roma penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy’s storied capital, a city Fellini called “the most wonderful movie set in the world.”

A chronicle of the FC Roma football club, which nearly becomes the winner of the league, almost without kicking the ball, as non-Roma teams in the third league refuse to play against them. The filmmakers’ inconspicuous, observational approach transforms the documentary into an excursion through the various types of everyday Czech xenophobia. The dialogue of the various protagonists is the most prominent feature of this stirring, yet hopeless sounding documentary.