Federico Fellini

       Frederico Fellini and his films were so much a part of the sixties, I can't imagine them being in any other era.  We were questioning the hypocrisy of the fifties, the cold war tensions, the policies of isolationism and chauvinism.  Not to mention capitalistic greed at the expense of everything else and the bourgeois practice of monogamy.  It was a time to throw of your old tired ethics and breathe again.  That's what Fellini's films were speaking to.    "La Dolce Vida" explored these principles and found many of them lacking in the end.  "8 1/2" explored them but in one man's mind, not all of society's.  It was also a time when the movie going audiences were ready to let foreign films into their consciousness and explore other ways of doing things cinematically and in other languages.  Frederico Fellini was there when we needed him and he gave us some lasting treats.

Review posted by: bRaxis

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