While many viewers may watch it primarily to look for clues as to the filmmaker Fellini would become, there’s actually a perfectly satisfying narrative at its core.
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Variety Lights (1951)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:10
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: The first film directed by the incomparable Federico Fellini. Even at this early stage, he reveals a talent for capturing the colorful world of street artists, with its eccentric and often... [More]
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Reviews for Variety Lights
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In as sordid a trade as showbiz, it pays to create theater out of life's miseries
09/25/09
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11/06/05
It ranks with the more simple pleasures of Nights of Cabiria and La Strada -- in short, some of Fellini's best work.
01/01/00
Delightfully charming and whimsical, if nowhere near as consequential as Fellini's best.
12/22/03
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07/17/05
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08/29/03
The cognoscenti will recognize touches that have turned up in eight Fellini features that followed this one.
05/09/05
a funny, touching film about the foibles of desire and the dreams of stardom shared by both the young and the old
02/27/01
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01/26/06
Even in this early effort the whimsical, odd world of Fellini comes dancing forth.
08/29/06
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