I really want to love Fellini. So far this is the closest I’ve gotten. I watched 8 1/2 about 10 years ago and didn’t care for it at all (don’t worry I plan on revisiting it soon). This film seemed all over the place, but there were a lot of parts I really liked: The uncle in the tree, the movie theater scene, the scene where the tobacco woman shoves her boobs in the boy’s face. There’s a lot of life in this film, that’s for sure. I am very removed from Italian fascism/Mussolini so I don’t really have a reference point for that. I hope to learn more about the experience that the people who lived it went through. There’s a shot in here that I particularly loved. It’s when they stop on the side of the ride to pee and the boy is jumping up and down from the wheat in the field. I just loved that shot.
