Fellini Satyricon

Pieter

at 9:59 pm

Phew! Fellini’s wild imagination runs rampant here, with a nightmare journey through a series of brothels with fat prostitutes, midgets, transexuals, a truly sickening Roman feast/orgy with stuffed pigs, a priestess who belches fire from an uncomfortable part of the anatomy, a sinister visit to the lair of the minotaur (the chanting is enough to raise the dead)and a deeply disturbing encounter with a delicate hermaphrodite. It’s really too much to digest in one sitting, so I recommend viewing the movie over two days. Not for sensitive souls, but it’s certainly a masterpiece of the grotesque. The only other movie that comes close is Burrough’s The Naked Lunch.
Rating: 5 / 5