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Acclaimed director Federico Fellini (Fellini's Satyricon La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) brilliantly demonstrates why he is regarded as the last of the great epic filmmakers delivering a thrilling personal memoir with this monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome - The Eternal City. This lavish autobiography full of lush fantasy sequences and monumental pageantry begins with Fellini as a youngster living in the Italian countryside. In school he studies the eclectic but parochial history of ancient Rome and then is introduced as a young man to real thing - arriving in this strange new city on the outbreak of World War II. Here through a series of visually stunning vignettes brimming with satire and spark the filmmaker comes to grips with a sprawling boisterous bursting-at-the-seams portrait of Rome reinterpreting with his inimitable style an Italian history full of rich sensual imagery and extravagant perception.
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