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City of Women (1980)

City of Women poster
Original title
La città delle donne
Directed by
Federico Fellini
Genre
drama film, comedy film, fantasy film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
2h 19m
Rated
R
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 294 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man travels through spaces filled with women, encountering different female figures and his own ideas about them. The film follows his journey toward understanding his marriage and his own masculinity.

dreamlikewhimsicalsurrealintrospectivelushreflectiveplayfulphilosophical

What happens

City of Women (Italian: La città delle donne) is a 1980 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, who co-wrote it with Bernardino Zapponi and Brunello Rondi. Amid Fellini's characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcello Mastroianni plays Snàporaz, a man who voyages through male and female spaces towards a confrontation with his own attitudes towards women and his wife. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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