Fellini’s first film in colour, it’s his segment to Boccaccio ‘70, shared with De Sica, Visconti, and Mario Monicelli. It starts off promising enough with its opening shot that plays off a line of white-shirt and yellow-skirted schoolgirls against another line of red-cassocked priests, but then unfortunately the story itself begins, a crass and ploddingly obvious critique of puritanism (Dr Antonio, a caricature of a moral-standards crusader, is enraged and then literally driven made by a billboard of Anita Ekberg that highlights her giant breasts) that is extended way beyond its natural life to 54 increasingly tedious minutes.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
15 Oct 2007 1:22 PM | Submit Comment
