Fellini Satyricon

Rome, 1st Century AD: Encolpius, a former gladiator, and his friend and rival Ascyltos go through a series of adventures. Sketchy, funereal adaptation of Petronius's literary work, "Fellini's Satyricon" marks the second collaboration between Fellini and screenwriter Bernardino Zapponi - and their first feature together after the Toby Dammit short episode from "Spirits of the Dead". Deliberately conceived as a baffling experience for viewers, who are not given all the story elements to unequivocally decode all that's going on, it was understandably unsuccessful in its first run - nor is it read more