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With Variety Lights, we see the beginnings of Fellini’s fascination with carnivalesque characters and poor, down-on-their-luck people, which have become a signature mainstay in Fellini movies like Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, and La Dolce Vita.
Variety Lights. Made in collaboration with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini’s directorial debut unfolds amid the colorful backdrop of a traveling vaudeville troupe whose quixotic impresario (Peppino De Filippo) is tempted away from his faithful mistress (Giulietta Masina) by the charms of an ambitious young dancer (Carla Del Poggio).
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With Variety Lights, we see the beginnings of Fellini’s fascination with carnivalesque characters and poor, down-on-their-luck people, which have become a signature mainstay in Fellini movies like Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, and La Dolce Vita.
Aug 28, 2000 · Variety Lights (Luci del varietà, 1950) is the ironically grandiose title of an Italian movie featuring the onstage and backstage antics of a provincial troupe of lovably inept vaudeville performers. Their hand-to-mouth existence is bathed in a warm glow of compassion typical of the Italian cinema since World War II.
A young woman pursuing her dream of being on the stage, aligns herself with a traveling variety show band of performers in `Variety Lights,' directed by Federico Fellini (and assisted by Alberto Lattuada).
Variety Lights. Directed by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada • 1950 • Italy. Starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina. Made in collaboration with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini’s directorial debut unfolds amid the colorful backdrop of a traveling vaudeville troupe whose quixotic impresario (Peppino De ...
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Aug 9, 2019 · #81 Variety Lights 1950 // Italy // Federico Fellini & Alberto Lattuada Criterion Collection (LINK) / Letterboxd (LINK) Federico Fellini‘s directorial debut is a collaboration with Alberto Lattuada, an established Italian director whose fame is still largely limited within his home country.