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Satyricon

Italy 1969
produced by
Alberto Grimaldi for Produzioni Europee Associati
directed by Federico Fellini
starring Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Il Moro (= Mario Romagnoli), Magali Noel, Capucine, Alain Cuny, Fanfulla, Joseph Wheeler, Lucia Bose, Hylette Adolphe, Luigi Montefiori (= George Eastman), Gordon Mitchell, Donyale Luna, Sibilla Sedat
screenplay by Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, Brunello Rondi, based on the novel by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, music by Nino Rota, Tod Dockstader, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Andrew Rudin, costumes & art-direction by Danilo Donati

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Ancient Rome: Student Encolpius (Martin Potter) is madly in love with feminine loverboy Giton (Max Born), an affection his roommate Ascyltus (Hiram Keller) shares though, & when Encolpius & Ascyltus decide to part ways, Giton decides to stick with Ascyltus, To Encolpius's great disappointment. To cope with his loss, he decides to take up company with poet Eumolpus (Salvo Randone), who takes him to the enormously tasteless & decadent feast of Trimalchio (Il Moro), celebrated oblivious to the crumbling world around them. But after this night of excess, Encolpius wakes up to reality again - in chains & brought aboard a ship to be sent - as slave - to the young emperor ... but at least, Encolpius meets Giton & Ascyltus again, who were enslaved as well.

However, they are soon freed, as the young emperor is no more, & the slaves are left to go wherever they please - all but Giton, who is kept by the commander as his own personal loverboy. So Encolpius & Ascyltus team up again & encounter the mansion of a couple (Joseph Wheeler, Lucia Bose) who has comitted suicide but has left behind a slavegirl they have a passionate threeesome with. On their further way they encounter a nymphomaniac woman (Sibilla Sedat) whom Ascyltus gives satisfaction, & a hermaphrodite, whom they help a thief to steal. But as they do not manage to keep the hermaphrodite alive, the thief tries to kill them both in a fit of rage but is killed himself.

Then Encolpius is thrown into the labyrinth though, where he has to battle the minotaur (George Eastman), but throws himself at his mercy explaining he is no warrior & not skilled in the arts of war ... at which point everything is revealed as an elaborate hoax to honor Satyr. & to make up with Encolpius he is even offered a woman to have sex with - but at this point, the young man is struck by impotence. His old friend Eumolpus shows up again & promises to help heal this condition by a tour through the regional brothels, but nothing helps Encolpius until he is told of Enotea (Donyale Luna), a powerful sorceress specialized in such affairs. But while he egocentrically gets healed by the woman, Ascyltus, who accompanied him, is killed by their boatsman/slave, & as Encolpius gets back to Eumolpus, that man is dead, too, & his testament forces his prospected heirs to eat his corpse - which they gladly do in order to get the inheritance. Encolpius on the other hand, with a young group of adventurers, takes off by ship to other shores, to see more of the (then known) world ...

 

This is maybe the closest Federico Fellini ever came to making a genre-film (in this case a peplum), & the subject at hand greatly compliments his directorial style, by now shed of all neorealist bonds (which greatly influenced his earlier works), instead the decadent to the point of decay ancient Rome proves a great playground for Fellini's by now fully developed over the top, no holds barred direction, & his triumph of image over story would actually make narrative sense here - as opposed to some later efforts like La Citta delle Donne, where the episodic structure would never really come together to tell the story.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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