Ginger and Fred (1986)
(Ginger e Fred)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 126m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina
Synopsis:
An elderly dancing couple, who have modelled themselves on their eponymous forbears, are brought out of retirement by a tacky TV show, but transcend their exploitation as curiosities.
Review:
Fellini's glorious indictment of Italian downmarket televisual values is also a moving human comedy. As in many of the director's films, there are moments when the loud grotesqueries fade out to give way to a magical innocence, an atmosphere that yearns for timelessness but has intimations of mortality.
(Ginger e Fred)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 126m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina
Synopsis:
An elderly dancing couple, who have modelled themselves on their eponymous forbears, are brought out of retirement by a tacky TV show, but transcend their exploitation as curiosities.
Review:
Fellini's glorious indictment of Italian downmarket televisual values is also a moving human comedy. As in many of the director's films, there are moments when the loud grotesqueries fade out to give way to a magical innocence, an atmosphere that yearns for timelessness but has intimations of mortality.
(Ginger e Fred)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 126m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina
Synopsis:
An elderly dancing couple, who have modelled themselves on their eponymous forbears, are brought out of retirement by a tacky TV show, but transcend their exploitation as curiosities.
Review:
Fellini's glorious indictment of Italian downmarket televisual values is also a moving human comedy. As in many of the director's films, there are moments when the loud grotesqueries fade out to give way to a magical innocence, an atmosphere that yearns for timelessness but has intimations of mortality.