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Fellini Satyricon (1969)

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Reviews Counted:22

Fresh:17

Rotten:5

Average Rating:7/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: In SATYRICON, Italian New Wave director Federico Fellini depicts the hedonistic, amoral, pre-Christian world of ancient Rome. Using the unfinished classical writings of Petronius as his guide,... In SATYRICON, Italian New Wave director Federico Fellini depicts the hedonistic, amoral, pre-Christian world of ancient Rome. Using the unfinished classical writings of Petronius as his guide, Fellini invents a dreamlike culture full of strange, distant characters and odd, grotesque events. Though the film lacks a definitive plot or narrative structure, its constants are Gitone (Max Born) and Encolpius (Martin Potter), whose unsavory encounters with sex, the theater, and religion are the film's focal point. Presenting a loosely structured episodic tale of decadence and depravity in ancient Rome, SATYRICON follows the adventures of two students as they negotiate their way through a variety of mishaps, dangers, and sexual encounters. What results is a bizarre journey through ancient Rome. This story is a perfect example of Fellini's accomplished skill in bringing fantasy to the screen. [More]

Starring: Martin Potter, Max Born, Hiram Keller, Capucine

Starring: Martin Potter, Max Born, Hiram Keller, Capucine, Gordon Mitchell, Salvo Randone, Magali Noel, Alain Cuny, Il Moro, Fanfulla, Joseph Wheeler, Luigi Montefiori, Lucia Bose

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Federico Fellini
Screenwriter: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
Composer: Nino Rota

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Apr 10, 2001

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True, the various strands are never bound together, but with material this sumptuous it really doesn't matter.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/13/08
Jon Fortgang
Jon Fortgang
Channel 4 Film

Federico Fellini presents an incredible fresco-like vision of Rome's social structure 2,000 years ago in which survival and pleasure were man's sole motivating forces.

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09/13/08
Variety Staff
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Variety
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A shallow, hypocritical film, without a glimmer of genuine creativity.

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09/13/08
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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The odd thing is that the excess seems visual and mythical rather than really sexual.

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08/29/06
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Fellini's characteristic delirium is in fact anchored in a precise, psychological schema: under the matrix of bisexuality, he explores the complexes of castration, impotence, paranoia and libidinal release.

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06/24/06
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09/26/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Those who don't weaken and bolt for the door experience a one-of-a-kind visual adventure they are unlikely to forget.

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07/21/05
Louis B. Parks
Louis B. Parks
Houston Chronicle
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Fellini received a well deserved Oscar nomination for this bizarre, wildly flamboyant but plotless spectacle, inspired by the firt century author Petronius, flaunting glorious production values.

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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
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EmanuelLevy.Com

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04/26/05
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Hedonistic buffet

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10/11/04
S. James Wegg
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JWR

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Thomas Delapa
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Boulder Weekly

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06/18/03
Jules Brenner
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05/23/03
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It is a surreal epic that, I confidently believe, will outlive all its interpretations.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Visually stunning and sensationalistic.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

It is so much more ambitious and audacious than most of what we see today that simply as a reckless gesture, it shames these timid times. Films like this are a reminder of how machine-made and limited recent product has become.

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08/01/01
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Felliini's ancient Roman tale with a modern message is as cynical and bleak as its images are startling and original.

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05/23/01
Dan Jardine
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