Fellini Satyricon with Martin Potter: DVD Cover

    Fellini Satyricon Director: Federico Fellini Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/10/2001
    • Original Release: 1969
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 14,091

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    Original theatrical trailer; Italian: mono; English: mono; English, French, and Spanish language subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Selections
    1. Title/The Disgrace [4:46]
    2. The Boy's Worth [6:09]
    3. Lost In The Big House [10:41]
    4. Death To The Classics [15:19]
    5. The Poet's Family [8:19]
    6. The Matron Of Ephesus [3:59]
    7. Death And Captivity [9:32]
    8. Wedding At Sea [:10]
    9. Freeing The Slaves [8:39]
    10. Life To The Fullest [6:58]
    11. Stealing The Demigod [10:42]
    12. The Gladiator Prank [8:42]
    13. Curing The Wet Mouse [10:33]
    14. Enotea's Fire [7:03]
    15. A Poetic Meal [1:54]
    16. End Credits [8:59]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Federico Fellini makes his most decadent, undisciplined work in this free adaptation of Petronius' famous farcical chronicle of ancient Roman life. The film opens with Encolpio (Martin Potter) vying with his friend Ascilto (Hiram Keller) for the affections of a young effeminate lad named Gitone (Max Born). When the youth chooses his rival or him, Encolpio begins a journey that has him encountering Romans of every stripe and color. He drops in on an orgy thrown by Trimalchio (Mario Romagnoli), a wealth-loving ex-slave who has spurned his wife in favor of a pleasures of a young boy; he toils on a slave galley, fighting off the advances of Lichas (Alain Cuny) -- the ship's burly wall-eyed captain; he steals an albino hermaphrodite demi-god who is reputed to be able to tell the future; and fails to summon the enthusiasm to make love to a whore-priestess. Along the way, we witness a parade of prostitutes in ancient Rome's pleasure quarters; watch performance by Vernacchio (Fanfulla), an actor whose on-stage specialties include farting and public amputation; and the wonton devouring of a human corpse for financial gain. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

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    Fellini Satyriconby Anonymous

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    December 11, 2005: This film is an epic that is confusing, breathtaking, and strange: A true epic. It could have gotten more Oscar nominations, though. It should have also qualified for Art Direction, Coustume Designe and Cinematography.

    Fellini Satyriconby Anonymous

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    April 23, 2004: Fellini's Satyricon is a loosely based adaptation of Petronius' work of the same title; a classical author who lived a life of hedonism during Nero's reign. As with the book, the film follows the debauched lives of Encolpius and Ascyltus, two rhetoricians fighting over their amorous desires for Giton, a slave boy who manipulates his masters through pleasure. As with the original work, the film is disjointed and fragmentary. The film is unique for its surreal and provocative imagery. Fellini successfully reduces the distincition between societal values of post-industrial society and pagan Rome with a blend of classical and futuristic imagery. Fellini also follows Petronius' work by including the chapter of Trimalchio's feast; presenting a pun-laden caricature of a decadent society obsessed with pursuing wealth and pleasure at the expense of everything else. Watching this scene or reading this part in the book, one begins to see how little human nature has changed despite the passage of almost 2000 years. Fellini also seems to want to break the myth of the clean, sober, and orderly Roman empire portrayed by Hollywood in preceding years. Fellini shows no restraint (as with Petronius) in displaying the vulgar and obscene without flinching; this however, is not done in a gratuitous manner and shows his brilliance as a film director. To those who aren't familiar with Fellini or this film in particular, I would either read the Satyricon itself or rent the film before you actually buy it: it may not be your taste.


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