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Rated: Unrated; Genre: Foreign Language; With: Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni
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By Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

INTERVISTA Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg (1987, Triboro, $89.95, unrated, subtitled) In the dead of night, a Japanese TV crew arrives for an on-set interview with Federico Fellini. From there, more and more faux realities unfold: the septuagenarian director filming a re-creation of his first visit to Cinecitta studios in 1940, shooting scenes for an adaptation of Kafka's Amerika, and cajoling old friend Mastroianni into visiting an enormous Ekberg at her country home. Beneath the big-top bustle, there's a keen acknowledgement of mortality and faded glory in this bittersweet self- portrait; when hostile Indians armed with TV antennas circle the filmmakers in the finale, you'll feel exquisitely sad to be watching via TV-the very medium Fellini feels has driven Italian movies to extinction. A- -SD


Posted May 28, 1993
 

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