This is a delightful romp down Fellini's memory lane. It centres around the seaside village of Rimini during the Mussolini era and is more a stream of consciousness than a plotted story. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's surrealistic art direction and to the frequently bawdy injections of sex and politics. Fellini clearly has deep affection for the people of this seaside village, warts and all, and communicates it through episodic visual anecdotes which are seen as if through the mists of a favorite dream, playfully scored by Nino Rota and lovingly photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno.It won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film.
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