Variety Lights
A beautiful ingenue joins a tawdry music hall troupe and quickly becomes its feature attraction in Fellini's stunning debut film (directed in collaboration with neorealist filmmaker Alberto Lattuada). Featuring Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife and frequent leading lady, Variety Lights introduces the director's affection for the carnivalesque characters that frequent the cinematic landscape of such classics as Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, and La Dolce Vita. Criterion is proud to present Variety Lights in a beautiful digital transfer.
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An interestinf first film - sal33
One of Fellini's first films it holds up fairly well after all these years. It has one of his favorite types, the braggart who has bid dreams but just doesn't have the talent or the luck to achieve his dreams.
The love interest in the gold digging young starlet adds a comical touch to the inept leading star. there is something very funny and sad at the same time.
A film worth watching.Four stars to underline something intriguing a bout it - Moir
This is not a four star film for me, actually, but I felt I had to underline that it did not feel like an ordinary film either. There is something that felt special to me about it, intriguing me, making me quite willing at some time to think about looking at it again. ..
I felt quite satisfied, not by the story really, but by something that I felt watching it ... something about ... well in Chinese the two characters used for the word for 'film' can be translated as 'electric shadow' ... something about how the 'electric shadows' danced perhaps ....
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An interestinf first film - sal33
One of Fellini's first films it holds up fairly well after all these years. It has one of his favorite types, the braggart who has bid dreams but just doesn't have the talent or the luck to achieve his dreams.
The love interest in the gold digging young ...Four stars to underline something intriguing a bout it - Moir
This is not a four star film for me, actually, but I felt I had to underline that it did not feel like an ordinary film either. There is something that felt special to me about it, intriguing me, making me quite willing at some time to think about looking ...