Roma

The ‘great liar’ Federico Fellini invites us on an autobiographical tour of the eternal city: at the end of the 1930s, he arrives as a young man from the provinces in the city that he has only ever known from school or the cinema ... Fellini, who makes a small cameo appearance, knows like no other how to fan out a picturesque, grotesque but always lovingly drawn kaleidoscope of types and situations that conjures up past glamour and combines impending decay. The shots of rainy traffic chaos and a clerical fashion show (including roller-skating priests who want to get to paradise faster this way) are legendary. A lavish series of images in which dream and reality coexist on an equal footing, celebrating the colourful hustle and bustle, the sensual pleasures - in short: the sweet life.
(Florian Widegger)