Satyricon

1969 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / History

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 18040 18K

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Plot summary

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.

Director

Federico Fellini Photo
Federico Fellini

Top cast

Mario Del Vago Photo
Mario Del Vago as Stage Actor
Hiram Keller Photo
Hiram Keller as Ascilto
Veriano Ginesi Photo
Veriano Ginesi as Guest of Trimalcione
Francesco Di Giacomo Photo
Francesco Di Giacomo as Musician
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.16 GB
1280*534
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
2 hr 9 min
Seeds 6
2.15 GB
1920*800
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
2 hr 9 min
Seeds 25

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Soysoy 8 / 10

Ahem...

"Satyricon" is among the weirdest and most colorful, larger-than-life movies I've ever seen, along with Erasurehead, Erendira, Santa sangre, Naked lunch... If you don't like these, don't even try "Satyricon".On one hand, its many flaws are rather upsetting. The out-of-sync lipping (bad post-sync), the fact that the movie neither really tells a story nor evocates sensible moral or philosophical concepts... so one may say it's actually a dull movie. The violence in this movie doesn't seem to make real sense, neither does the homosexuality, neither does the "romanian decadence" portrait.On the other hand, the scenography, the sets, the costumes and makup are among the most dazzling ones you'll ever see in cinema, and the cinematography... well... maybe the BEST one you'll ever see. I can't think of any another movie able to compete with "Satyricon"'s mindblowing cinematography. Each scene is a terrific picture, with several visual layers, extraordinary lights and focuses, a lot of invention, of visual flair, and the overall technical mastery is stunning.The result is something mesmerizing for some, totally disgusting for others. I have to say I'm more on the mesmerized side, because I was mainly focused on the visual/meditative aspects of the movie, not on the narrative ones.If you're really into cinema, I mean as an artistic media more than as entertainment, you MUST see "Satyricon", as it's to my sense the most *visually* outstanding movie ever made. Be prepared for some disappointment about the movie as a whole, though...
Reviewed by christopher-underwood 8 / 10

Love it or loathe it, this probably really is a film you have to see.

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.
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