Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Jole Silvani, Marcello Mastroianni

Director Federico Fellini's love of women and thoughts on feminism form the focus of this visually stunning work. Frequent Fellini thespian Marcello Mastroianni stars as Snaporaz, a traveler who awake...( read more  read more... )ns on a train to meet a lovely young woman. His pursuit of her begins a dreamlike journey that brings him to a feminist convention where he finds himself surrounded by modern women.

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R, 138 min.

Directed by: Federico Fellini

Release Date: April 8, 1981

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DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005

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  • September 17, 2008
    Effeminate and the most feminist of all films,none can forget features like Baise-Moi but requires second re-read.While on one hand the glamorous city jolts of tender females,next step proves to be a mere complication of idiosyncrasy.Snaporaz (a fabulous early reference in 8 1/2)...( read more) is a bargainer and the lesson he'll learn whether it's permanent or not is for the inner female to be unleashed through his curiosity because taming it would be mental (and chauvinistic) torture.
  • October 11, 2009
    Another terrible film from Fellini.
  • July 27, 2009
    Fellini's ambitious cinematic ode to benign male heterosexuality (at times verging on pornography -- but there are worse crimes a movie can commit).
  • July 9, 2009
    I like coinsidence.Coinsidence can both funny and dramatic."City of Women"s story is more using the comedy of coinsidence.But still couldnt be a better script for the story.Just for Fellini!Who can think a story about a "Woman Lover" man who accidently walks on a Hotel which is i...( read more)nvaded by a crowded feminist group?Wait...I'm searching...Of course Brunelli Rondi and Master Fellini..Well i dont know who is Brunelli Rondi but i think the main idea was from Fellini.Because i read that he has inspired from himself for the character of Marcello Mastroianni,Snaporaz.
    Not the top directing of Fellini.But totally deserves to Congraculation.And decoration was fantastic.Espeically the house of the Snaporaz old friend.And i forgot to say:It is cutting his relations about feminism after a moment then ties the story again with it.So it is not a Feminism film.Fellini wants to show his love of woman by using the Cinema and his alter-ego Marcello Mastroianni.And watch the beggining scene (when the train is entering the tunnel) really carefully.It is symbolic.
  • February 13, 2009
    One of Fellini's most hypnotic films.
  • October 26, 2008
    Raving Mad!

    Made me dowload "The Visitors" with Gino Soccio, though it's disco

    But It's strange disco, just like the movie
  • September 22, 2008
    The title itself is enough to drive a gay man like me to run away ><
  • May 2, 2007
    An overall great movie.
  • February 28, 2007
    Unforgettable images, as in all Fellini movies. He doesn't know what to make of feminism, and he says so with this film.

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