The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
City of Women (1980) is a surreal comic adventure from Federico Fellini, blending fantasy and satire. The story follows a man who, chasing an alluring stranger off a train, wanders into a dreamlike realm where a feminist gathering has assembled and where conventional power has been upended. Flamboyant and phantasmagoric, the film unfolds as a procession of fantastical set pieces, dream logic, and theatrical excess. It probes male desire, midlife anxiety, and shifting relations between the sexes with provocative, exaggerated imagery. Best suited to admirers of art-house cinema and Fellini's baroque imagination. It holds a MagicMovieScore of 7.0.
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Release Date
March 28, 1980
Runtime
2h 20m
Rating
R
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Director