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''Roma'' is a 1972 film directed by Creator/FedericoFellini.
There isn't a story. It is, essentially, Fellini's ode to his adopted home town. The movie starts out with Fellini as a boy in the provinces, fascinated by Rome even before he ever went there. He finally does go there as a young man of nineteen, in 1939. Part of the film is a series of vignettes of Rome from the UsefulNotes/FascistItaly era: a vaudeville show in 1943 is interrupted by a bombing raid, young Fellini goes to a brothel.
Interspersed with these segments are segments from modern day, early 1970s Rome, with Federico Fellini making a movie. The modern-day segments include shots of the then-recently completed ring road, hippies hanging out around the Trevi fountain, and a singularly bizarre fashion show.
Creator/AnnaMagnani, legendary Italian actress, made her final film appearance in a cameo. Cassandra Peterson, who would later become famous as Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark, appears briefly as an extra.[[note]]She's the redhead bobbing along with the music, immediately after the film cuts from the catacomb sequence to the hippies in the square.[[/note]]
No connection to Creator/AlfonsoCuaron's 2018 film ''Film/{{Roma}}''.
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!!Tropes:
* AnachronicOrder: Starts with Fellini as a boy 1930-ish, then bounces back and forth between scenes of young Fellini in World War II-era Rome, and 1972 Rome.
* AsideGlance: The 1972 portions of the film include many people glancing at the camera as Fellini's crew films scenes in Rome.
* AutoErotica: At the movie theater, the camera shows a stylish woman and Fellini identifies her as the wife of the local pharmacist. Apparently she cheats on her husband a lot, as the next shot shows her having sex with another man in a car. Then the next shot after that shows a long line of men all waiting to have sex with her.
* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: The TropeMaker, as Fellini goes to an Italian-language production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' and watches the scene where Caesar gets stabbed.
* BlowingARaspberry: Some of the hecklers at the 1943 vaudeville performance do this.
* TheCameo:
** Anna Magnani in her final film appearance.
** Creator/GoreVidal, having dinner in an outdoor restaurant, talks for a bit about how Rome is such a great place for artists.
* CreatorCameo: Apparently the 1972 film crew is supposed to be Fellini's, but we only see him once. He's filming a scene in a park when young people accost him and demand to know if his film will show an idealized Rome or if it will show the real Rome with all its problems.
* FanserviceExtra: Topless hookers in the 1943 brothel scenes. Topless female hippies lounging around 1972 Rome.
* FashionShow: A deeply bizarre fashion show about new fashions for priests, cardinals, and nuns. One cardinal model is wearing an electric suit with lights that flash like a Vegas billboard. Two nun models are wearing ridiculous wimples with bird wings. The fashion show ends with a guy who's apparently supposed to be the Pope, on a golden throne with a golden sun behind him.
* HighClassCallGirl: The scene with a low-rent 1940s brothel catering to sailors is followed by a scene of young Fellini going to a high-class brothel catering to rich folks. Fellini engages the services of a High Class Call Girl, then asks her out on a real date. (We never do find out if she accepted.)
* HongKongDub: As with every Fellini film, all the dialogue was looped in after filming, and sometimes it is very noticeable.
* InnerMonologue: The elderly princess who hosts the deeply weird FashionShow has an InnerMonologue where she muses about how her time has passed and how Rome was so much nicer in her day.
* ThePlace: Rome, Federico Fellini's adopted hometown.
* ShoutOut: There's a picture of Creator/GretaGarbo outside the movie theater where young Fellini goes to see a film.
* {{Vaudeville}}: Young Fellini goes to a 1943 vaudeville show that includes a terrible comedian, a [[TheChanteuse chanteuse]], a Creator/FredAstaire imitator, and ''three'' Creator/CharlieChaplin imitators who sing a song together.
* VisualTitleDrop: The very first shot of the movie is a mileage marker in Fellini's home town of Rimini, marking how far it is to Rome.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: A live version. The vaudeville sequence is dated to July 1943 when a guy interrupts the vaudeville show to deliver a bulletin about the Allied landing in Sicily. (Apparently the Germans and Italians wrecked the Allied offensive and everything is going great.)
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Did the HighClassCallGirl in 1940s Rome accept Fellini's invitation to a date? We'll never know.
* WhiteDwarStarlet: When young Fellini moves to Rome in 1939, one of the guests in the boarding house where he gets a room is an actor named Marco Landi, who says Fellini must surely recognize him, and tells Fellini the pictures he's appeared in.
There isn't a story. It is, essentially, Fellini's ode to his adopted home town. The movie starts out with Fellini as a boy in the provinces, fascinated by Rome even before he ever went there. He finally does go there as a young man of nineteen, in 1939. Part of the film is a series of vignettes of Rome from the UsefulNotes/FascistItaly era: a vaudeville show in 1943 is interrupted by a bombing raid, young Fellini goes to a brothel.
Interspersed with these segments are segments from modern day, early 1970s Rome, with Federico Fellini making a movie. The modern-day segments include shots of the then-recently completed ring road, hippies hanging out around the Trevi fountain, and a singularly bizarre fashion show.
Creator/AnnaMagnani, legendary Italian actress, made her final film appearance in a cameo. Cassandra Peterson, who would later become famous as Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark, appears briefly as an extra.[[note]]She's the redhead bobbing along with the music, immediately after the film cuts from the catacomb sequence to the hippies in the square.[[/note]]
No connection to Creator/AlfonsoCuaron's 2018 film ''Film/{{Roma}}''.
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!!Tropes:
* AnachronicOrder: Starts with Fellini as a boy 1930-ish, then bounces back and forth between scenes of young Fellini in World War II-era Rome, and 1972 Rome.
* AsideGlance: The 1972 portions of the film include many people glancing at the camera as Fellini's crew films scenes in Rome.
* AutoErotica: At the movie theater, the camera shows a stylish woman and Fellini identifies her as the wife of the local pharmacist. Apparently she cheats on her husband a lot, as the next shot shows her having sex with another man in a car. Then the next shot after that shows a long line of men all waiting to have sex with her.
* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: The TropeMaker, as Fellini goes to an Italian-language production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' and watches the scene where Caesar gets stabbed.
* BlowingARaspberry: Some of the hecklers at the 1943 vaudeville performance do this.
* TheCameo:
** Anna Magnani in her final film appearance.
** Creator/GoreVidal, having dinner in an outdoor restaurant, talks for a bit about how Rome is such a great place for artists.
* CreatorCameo: Apparently the 1972 film crew is supposed to be Fellini's, but we only see him once. He's filming a scene in a park when young people accost him and demand to know if his film will show an idealized Rome or if it will show the real Rome with all its problems.
* FanserviceExtra: Topless hookers in the 1943 brothel scenes. Topless female hippies lounging around 1972 Rome.
* FashionShow: A deeply bizarre fashion show about new fashions for priests, cardinals, and nuns. One cardinal model is wearing an electric suit with lights that flash like a Vegas billboard. Two nun models are wearing ridiculous wimples with bird wings. The fashion show ends with a guy who's apparently supposed to be the Pope, on a golden throne with a golden sun behind him.
* HighClassCallGirl: The scene with a low-rent 1940s brothel catering to sailors is followed by a scene of young Fellini going to a high-class brothel catering to rich folks. Fellini engages the services of a High Class Call Girl, then asks her out on a real date. (We never do find out if she accepted.)
* HongKongDub: As with every Fellini film, all the dialogue was looped in after filming, and sometimes it is very noticeable.
* InnerMonologue: The elderly princess who hosts the deeply weird FashionShow has an InnerMonologue where she muses about how her time has passed and how Rome was so much nicer in her day.
* ThePlace: Rome, Federico Fellini's adopted hometown.
* ShoutOut: There's a picture of Creator/GretaGarbo outside the movie theater where young Fellini goes to see a film.
* {{Vaudeville}}: Young Fellini goes to a 1943 vaudeville show that includes a terrible comedian, a [[TheChanteuse chanteuse]], a Creator/FredAstaire imitator, and ''three'' Creator/CharlieChaplin imitators who sing a song together.
* VisualTitleDrop: The very first shot of the movie is a mileage marker in Fellini's home town of Rimini, marking how far it is to Rome.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: A live version. The vaudeville sequence is dated to July 1943 when a guy interrupts the vaudeville show to deliver a bulletin about the Allied landing in Sicily. (Apparently the Germans and Italians wrecked the Allied offensive and everything is going great.)
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Did the HighClassCallGirl in 1940s Rome accept Fellini's invitation to a date? We'll never know.
* WhiteDwarStarlet: When young Fellini moves to Rome in 1939, one of the guests in the boarding house where he gets a room is an actor named Marco Landi, who says Fellini must surely recognize him, and tells Fellini the pictures he's appeared in.
