Variety Lights (Ciné-Théâtre)

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Variety Lights

Luci del varietà Italie 1950 | Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini | vostEN | 100' | digital | Cast : Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina, John Kitzmiller, Folco Lulli

► New Restoration by Cineteca di Bologna

In a small town, Checco, the manager of a struggling theatre troupe, encounters the starry-eyed Lily and hires her as a dancer. She quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress. But the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions…

« 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. » (Los Angeles Times)

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« With its tale of a peripatetic band of low-rent theater types, Variety Lights incorporates many, if not most, of Fellini’s signature themes. » (Slant Magazine)

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Org.: Cinémathèque