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Ginger and Fred - Federico Fellini (1986)

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seen on VHS.

A pair of dancers in the '30s, imitated Astaire and Rogers , meet after 40 years to dance together in a television broadcast. Old memories, some secret, the many lost opportunities and, over all, the pettiness of a world gone to hell, exemplarily shown by the television world, made up of uncaring, hypocritical, freaks, freaks and spectacular of all, even the crime , holiness, love etc ...

A bitter film, and many regrets, which is a critique of society (here, as in Carpenter ) consumer (see the advertisements, television and billboards) and a demonstration of how the arts can save, or at least momentarily stop.

When the two dancers will gather to dance together, everything stops, and for a minute chaos rediscover any sense.

conquers all On the scene, just before the dance, where the lights blow, and all are suspended in a moment that, as he says Mastroianni, seems like a dream.

Overall, however, the film is unconvincing. Too predictable and repetitive, and very visually striking. From Fellini one would expect a riot of images and stories to the limit, but it happens. Not bad, but it remains a minor career of the director.

PS: the aged mother as Masina.