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The Voice of the Moon

La voce della luna

France, Italy

1990

120 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese, Italian
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DIR Federico Fellini

EXEC Bruno Altissimi, Maurizio Pastrovich, Claudio Saraceni

PROD Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori

SCR Ermanno Cavazzoni, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli

DP Tonino Delli Colli

CAST Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi, Angelo Orlando

ED Nino Baragli

PROD DES Dante Ferretti

MUSIC Nicola Piovani

Cannes (Out of Competition), San Francisco, AFI FEST (Gala Premieres)

Synopsis

A poet, visionary and saintly innocent takes delight in the life of his small Emilian village and his secret love for the moon-faced Aldina. –Inbaseline

Director

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was born in 1920 to a provincial middle-class family in Rimini, a small town on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The lack of available options to young men in provincial towns is an important theme in some of his films, most notably I Vitelloni and Amarcord. In fact, Orson Welles once described Fellini as “a small-town boy who’s never really come to Rome. He’s still dreaming about it. And we should all be grateful for those dreams.” He initially arrived in Rome as a law student but his career as a satirical cartoonist and gag writer was already well established by then. His childhood fascination with the circus and the Grand Guignol also governed his cinephilia in these early years. His favourite films were American comedies by Chaplin, Keaton, Harry Langdon and the Marx Brothers. It was only after he came into contact with the circle of Ettore Scola, Cesare Zavattini, Aldo Fabrizi and Roberto Rossellini, that he would seriously consider the cinema as a medium of expression… read more

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butterflycaught

4Feb12

an odyssey to the moon :)

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pillo

28Oct11

quando ebbi il vhs ricordo che lo consumai: l'avrò rivisto centinaia di volte. Opera meno nota, ma incredibilmente intensa e piena di eleganza. Apparentemente sognante, ma rivelatrice di una umanità profondamente reale

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Costanza Arena

25Apr11

Dove vanno tutte quelle scintille? E il fuoco quando si spegne dove va? Come la musica, che nessuno sa dove va quando finisce. Quante idee mi vengono a stare qui, ma volano via, come quelle scintille, come si fa a fermarle nonna? Tu ci riesci? Come mi piace ricordare, più che vivere, del resto... che differenza fa?

Filippo and pillo like this

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Mademoiselle

14Apr11

I can't find this anywhere! Can somebody tell me a place where I can find it with english or portuguese subtitles? :)

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