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A film that is sort of a melodramatic farce, with farce characters and aiming to make the audience laugh and sob. In is full of tricks, cheap and too evident. ¿An orchestra and a soloist playing at the Chatelet without a rehearsal? False. And finally it is so, so predictable. The best in it, the interpretation. But with a false story, a crooked script, it still may work as sort of evasion, easy entertainment. Beautiful shots,glow, fine actors playing. Not enough IMO. Four stars, and it may be too many... The mixture between farce and drama doesn't work very well. There was once a great film about a proscribed conductor, with John Gielguld, named "The conductor", No false comedy, no cheap dream. This film is just the opposite

Probably there is no Fellini's film, after Amarcord (1973), with such a high level of mastery as "Otto e mezzo", "La Dulce Vita", and Amarcord. But there are certainly strokes of genius in "E la nave VA", the nostalgic and highly critical of TV "Ginger and Fred", the delightfully autobiographical "Intervista" or even the "lunatic" and "moonstruck" "La voice Della Luna". "La cittá Dell Donne"has few assets to remember: Mastroianni, of course, and some brilliant scenes where the world of Snaporaz's erotics fantasies is brought back as a sort of entertainment show. But the script is faulty, there is no "reality check" to confront such unbridled fancy, where everything is possible. Of course, Fellini is a master, and "La cittá Dell Donne" is still the work of a master, who revisits one of his obsessions: women and sex and eroticism. But the same subject has been (much better) treated in "La Dulce vita", "Otto e mezzo", "Roma", "Amarcord", "Intervista" and even in "La Voce Della Luna".

This a low budget film, which goes right into the heart without cheap sentimentality or tricks: three crossed stories about simple people living at the end of the world, in a poor province of a poor country.The characters are as real as life, the actors are convincing. Not all the people shown are "nice good people always disposed to help" (by instance, the son of the man of the dog and her wife) but in all the cases they are true as life itself. That art (which is mainly "artifice") could grasp life so truly and honestly has lots of (artistic) merit. In that respect, this film is an achievement. A must see