Variety Lights (1950)

Original title

Luci del varietà

Directed by

Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini

Genre

drama film, comedy film, romance film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 101 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young beautiful woman joins a struggling traveling vaudeville troupe. Her presence stirs up jealousy and emotional turmoil among the performers.

romanticmelancholicbittersweetjealousintimateearthynostalgic

What happens

Variety Lights (Italian: Luci del varietà) is a 1951 Italian romantic drama film produced, directed and written by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. The film is about a beautiful and ambitious young woman who joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. A collaboration with Alberto Lattuada in production, direction, and writing, Variety Lights launched Fellini's directorial career. Prior to this film, Fellini worked primarily as a screenwriter, most notably working on Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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