Ginger and Fred (1985)

Original title

Ginger e Fred

Directed by

Federico Fellini

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 139 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging Italian couple who once made a living impersonating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reunite after 30 years to perform on a chaotic and tacky television show. It follows their awkward reunion and the surreal, garish spectacle around them as they confront their past and the changes in show business.

nostalgicmelancholicbittersweetwryfarcicaltenderreflectivevisually stylized

What happens

Ginger and Fred (Italian: Ginger e Fred) is a 1986 comedy-drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza. The film was the subject of a trademark claim in the United States by Ginger Rogers, who claimed in Rogers v. Grimaldi that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a "false light" defamation. The Second Circuit rejected this claim, finding that "suppressing an artistically relevant though ambiguous[ly] title[d] film" on trademark grounds would "unduly restrict expression." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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