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Episodic and strange, Satyricon offers a hedonistic tour through an ancient Rome that exists not in history books, but from Federico Fellini's singular imagination. Read critic reviews
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After his young lover, Gitone (Max Born), leaves him for another man, Encolpio (Martin Potter) decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another. He's invited to a poetry reading that ends in violence; is taken hostage by pirates; and is even forced to battle a gladiator disguised as a minotaur in a giant labyrinth.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Drama, Lgbtq+
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Original Language: Italian
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Director: Federico Fellini
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Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
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Writer: Federico Fellini, Petronius, Brunello Rondi, Bernardino Zapponi
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: United Artists
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Production Co: United Artists
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Sound Mix: Mono
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Aspect Ratio: 35mm
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Satyricon is an adventure and a phantasmagoria unlike any other film (Jodorowsky's El Topo is the closest that comes to mind). The lead actor and co-star bring a (decidedly Italian) youthful vitality and intensity that helps counterbalance the decadence and decay in this portrayal of Rome as a circus that never leaves town. Definitely a view for those wanting a film with some guts to go for it on a grand scale.
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Fellini misses the mark in his strange tale from Ancient Rome. The images are vulgar without much in the way of redeeming aspects.
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If an experiment was conducted consisting in submitting a modest cinema connoisseur to this beautiful and decadently disastrous orgy of anarchic cultural aspects of Rome, perhaps the first name that would pop up to his head was Pasolini. Surprisingly, it isn't. More surprisingly, this rebellious piece of art entered the business before Pasolini's Trilogy of Life. Truth is, Satyricon is the turning point for the legend that Fellini already was before autobiographical memoirs and nostalgia invaded his mind with controversial youth moments added here and there for spicing up his love letters to the city that gave him life and an identity forever. 99/100
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Fellini's fragmented "free adaptation' of Petronius' epic poem (much of which is lost) jumps around depicting adventures in the Roman world, from a decadent orgy/feast to the theft of a hermaphrodite demigod(dess), with a minotaur in between. Almost impossible to follow but always gorgeous to look at, it's a major indulgence from a major director; when extraordinary talent indulges itself, the results are usually worthwhile.
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