La città delle donne (1980)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Federico Fellini

Writers:

Federico Fellini (story) and
Bernardino Zapponi (story) ...

Release Date:

8 April 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

Plot Keywords:

Train | Businessman | It Was All A Dream | Masturbation | Female Nudity

Awards:

4 wins

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni	...	Snàporaz
Anna Prucnal	...	Elena
Bernice Stegers	...	Woman on train
Donatella Damiani	...	Donatella (Woman on roller skates)
Jole Silvani	...	Motorcyclist (as Iole Silvani)
Ettore Manni	...	Dr. Xavier Katzone
Fiammetta Baralla	...	Onlio
Hélène Calzarelli	...	Feminist (as Hélène G. Calzarelli)
Isabelle Canto da Maya		(as Isabelle Canto de Maya)
Catherine Carrel	...	Commandant
Stéphane Emilfork	...	Feminist
Marcello Di Falco	...	Slave
Silvana Fusacchia	...	Skater
Gabriella Giorgelli	...	Fishwoman of San Leo
Dominique Labourier	...	Feminist

Also Known As:

City of Women (USA)
La cité des femmes (France)

Runtime:

139 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Italy:VM14 | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Gaumont

Trivia:

Italian censorship visa # 74981 delivered on 27-3-1980.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in 8 ½ Women (1999)

Soundtrack:

The Visitors

Of all the Fellini films, this is probably his most erotic…

It is not as much a study of eroticism as it is one man's erotic fantasy about the battle between the sexes…

A rich, horny Italian (Mastroianni) meets a woman on a train… When the train stops, he follows her into a lonely wood, which becomes a futuristic world of forceful women who have almost entirely destroyed completely all men in their society…

Mastroianni's character is left alive as a curiosity piece… His experiences carry him deeper and deeper into this bizarre fantasy city… The film never fully provides passion and erotic lusts, but is tickling and stimulating pleasantly none the less... Fellini's point—that women resent the fact that men are easily excited—is most effectively carried by Donatella Damiani, a buxom and very beautiful young actress who runs nearly naked throughout the movie…

Although the film never tires, it never quite completes its erotic expectations either, giving priority to consider carefully its own bizarre reality… It has elements of science fiction and adventure, but is more exactly a fantasy on the estrangement between men and women...