Intervista

Entrevista estreava há 35 anos no Festival dei Due Mondi na Itália. Não sei o que pesou aqui, o fato de não estar no clima para Fellini hoje ou se nos anos 80 Fellini já estar longe de seus anos dourados e talvez esse não seja mesmo um grande filme. BlurayRip VXT.

Fellini was nearing the end of his career with Intervista, and he damn well knew it.The Italian film industry had undergone a radical restructuring in favour of television and old masters like Fellini were left out in the cold. Consequently, a sense of nostalgia and loss hangs over every scene as Fellini's hopeful past intermingles with his precarious present. The obvious highlight is the scene where an aging Mastroianni and Ekberg watch their younger selves in La Dolce Vita. Time and death.

Multi-layered, meta within meta within meta (Fellini telling a story of himself directing his younger self; pure brilliance), nostalgia, ode to the cinematic process, criticism and satire for the latter, fantastical elements, Fellini's "characters" - the film has everything. Superb. An astonishing feat from Fellini, which no doubt only a great mind can accomplish.

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Unduly neglected, this is Fellini at his most playful and nostalgic. Nevertheless, it is also very enjoyable, and the scene between Ekberg and Mastroianni lifts the movie onto another plane, not only emotionally but as a highly reflective commentary on the meaning of cinema itself, an artistic milieu in which everything is utterly unreal (mere stories and lies), and yet, necessarily, also real, that is, incarnated. The film is also about what died at the moment the age of television was born.

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