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- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 37 m
Summary A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
Directed By: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 37 m
Variety Lights
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Summary A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
Directed By: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
81
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Federico Fellini's first film (co-directed with Alberto Lattuada) would make a compatible living room double bill with FF's 1986 Ginger and Fred...Pleasing all the way through. [17 Mar 1989, p.3D]
With its tale of a peripatetic band of low-rent theater types, Variety Lights incorporates many, if not most, of Fellini’s signature themes.
Before there was such a thing as a “Fellini” movie, “Variety Lights” established what that would look like as he moved up the ladder in Italy’s movie industry, through humor and melancholy.
It's a very simple and, in some ways, tawdry film, but Fellini shows his extraordinary talent for the dejected setting, the shabby performer, the fat old chorine, the singer who will never hit the high note.
Like a preliminary sketch for a vast and splendid mural, it unfolds Fellini's wonderful vision of life in all its joy and sadness, hope and fear, triumph and defeat, that emerges fully in the later movies. [20 May 2004, p.E13]
Even in this early effort the whimsical, odd world of Fellini comes dancing forth.
As a straightforward comedy-drama about the vicissitudes of the principals in a small-time tab show or traveling vaudeville troupe, this is wholesome corn. But it is highly palatable fare, which, in its story line, hews more to the type of films subsequently made by Mr. Lattuada.
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