Review of Fellini Satyricon

This is certainly a unique film. Other film makers were influenced but this was never matched for sheer visual opulence and visionary style. All this does not necessarily make for an easy watch for whilst Fellini is never particularly bothered about having a coherent narrative, this one is as fragmentary and disjointed as they come. Apparently the original written source only exists in bits and pieces and this follows that even towards the end finishing a sequence with half finished sentence. Can't deny the look though and almost any captured frame would be a joy to look at. Its just that here there might be a little too much of a good thing, too rich maybe but hard to overly criticise. Love it or loathe it, this probably really is a film you have to see.