The Voice of the Moon (1990)

Original title

La voce della luna

Directed by

Federico Fellini

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, dystopian film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

2h

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 139 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fake inspector of wells and a former prefect wander through the Italian countryside. They encounter a strange mix of television commercials, political rallies, and local festivals. The film is a surreal look at modern society through the eyes of two eccentrics.

whimsicalmelancholicsatiricaldreamlikeunsettlingwanderingpoignantreflective

What happens

The Voice of the Moon (Italian: La voce della luna) is a 1990 Italian dramatic comedy film directed and written by Federico Fellini and starring Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, and Nadia Ottaviani. Based on the novel Il poema dei lunatici by Ermanno Cavazzoni, and revisiting themes Fellini first explored in La strada (1954), the film is about a fake inspector of wells and a former prefect who wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside of Fellini's childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual. The film received David di Donatello Awards for Best Actor, Best Editing, and Best Production Design, and nominations for Best Director, Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Music, and Best Producer. The Voice of the Moon was Fellini's last film before his death in 1993. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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