Ginger and Fred Page #4

Synopsis: Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Federico Fellini
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 18 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
PG-13
Year:
1986
125 min
226 Views


You were allowed to come in

with the bus, not with the cow!

It's getting all dirty!

Such a mess!

Even a cow!

I don't know if I'll stay!

What kind of show is this? Are we

going to stay in a zoo?

I signed for 800,000 lire.

You may not need it,

but I don't have your income.

- Which income, Pippo!

- Look!

A delight! Compliments!

You're like the sun...

There's enough for everyone!

- Hey, She's my bride!

- Compliments.

"big breasted woman... cock feeding-bottle!"

It doens't satisfy me, it could be better.

Listen, Will you milk it?

- I mean, the cow.

- Stop it!

They're calling us, the bus.

Do you still have your dancing school?

- I sold it to that man from Saragoza.

- And then, what did you do?

Some theatre,

and quite succesfully too.

- Now?

- I'm selling encyclopedias door to door.

We only have two minutes! There's no time

to milk it during the show!

I can't see a single good decoration...

Pippo, leave him alone!

- I was being serious!

- Are you always like this?

I wanted to ask you why you came alone.

Why didn't your wife come with you?

She didn't.

Isn't it better?

So you really didn't recognize me

yesterday evening?

Thanks.

You're always a little girl!

All these years passed too soon.

Not for me. I got married,

I became a widow...

I'll stay near the window.

- Tears of joy.

- Are they?

Something happened

something that can't be understood.

Beyond.

How could they?

One of the voices, this time,

was recorded even without a microphone.

My mother tapes voices of dead people.

At least we believe they are

it happened for years.

How? Please explain it better.

Using a tape recorder.

We leave it in recording mode

with a microphone connected to it.

Later we listen to the recording

and we hear those voices

recorded with an incredible precision.

This time they were recorded without

the microphone! Do you understand?

Listen!

Not this one!

I sad the blue bus!

But this one is the secretary,

the fat man.

Yes, wait!

- Did you hear?

- What?

He said "pip".

It's a voice we know,

it did speak other times.

Always calls "Pippo",

Who knows why.

- Who could be?

- His name's Pippo !

I didn't hear anything,

only a hiss.

Precisely, just like you said,

a hiss.

It's a frequency jump,

from a dimension to another.

From their dimension to ours.

They need a lot of energy, to do it.

- "they" who?

- The deads!

Even though they try not to let us understand

poor them!

They're always so happy, joyful!

They laugh, they laugh so much!

It's obvious

that everything has been examined.

Technicians, witnesses.

everything controlled, there is no

possibility of cheating. Listen.

Did you hear? It was so clear

this time. "Pippo"!

That's kind from them,

they want to welcome me.

What's up?

I hope you didn't get impressed.

Consider that there are millions of "Pippos"

in this world!

Why just you?

Sometime...

It's like feeling that soon...

What?

It's difficult to explain this sensation.

It's as if things...

were looking at me in a strange way.

Who's looking at you in a strange way?

Things.

As if they wanted to say bye to me.

"Goodbye, Pippo.

bye, bye, bye, Pippo!"

Doens't it comfort you?

They love you!

Merry Christmas to all

our dear viewers.

Exacty at 16,30 we'll have

a special Christmas broadcast

of "We are proud to present".

He came earlier than us!

Look, so many!

Sergeant, this way we'll get scared!

During the show you won't have handcuffs,

you'll better behave well.

- Hello.

- I even prepared a short song!

Only tanks are missing!

- What does he want?

- Who is he?

I'm a fool,

I didn't bring telephoto lens!

I know that one, I've seen pictures

on the magazines, it's that man...

He's Catanzaro, a member of the Camorra,

a mafioso.

a racketeer!

he's in house arrest,

sentenced to 30 years.

and he's going to be on tv?

In his own way, he's interesting!

We had a special authorisation

from the Ministry of Justice.

He'll be in our show.

Could you tell us who's that

man with handcuffs?

Have you seen?

We made a bet.

- He doesn't want to tell us.

- We don't care!

Give me your hand.

At least, this one is light!

Mrs. Ginger, I've seen you here, and also there

The pass!

May I have a picture together

with the Carabinieri?

Leave your bags here

and pass this way.

We're all "recorded" now !

Go, go, very "intelligent".

What are you saying? Who are you talking about?

The "muchacho"...

Follow me, We'll pass this way.

- Lardiani told me...

- Miss, your bag here.

I am disarmed!

I left everything at home!

Stop!

I stopped smoking.

Thanks.

What a nice boy!

Did you hear? drug, train robbery,

kidnapping, a great criminal!

- So young!

- That's great!

- He probably killed too!

- That's great!

You, my dear, with your doll head

making money exploiting other people...

What are you saying?

One moment! That boy is a rebel!

I'm on his side because

it's a righteus battle

Against this society's injustices!

And let's stop talking about this!

this is senile dementia!

And you are histerical. So I'm part

of a bad society?

You own a firm with people working for you,

don't you?

I wake up at 6 and go to bed at midnight

for that little firm,

and I'd be a slavist?

Amelia, we have to rebel.

I'm with the rebels.

We have to rebel against this!

I get angry!

When I see unjustice,

I get angry!

Get angry then!

- You have to pass this way.

- With pleasure.

Viviana! Viviana!

Sir, please, come here.

Please, come here.

- Don't put your hands on me.

- I have to search.

- Don't put your hands on me.

- Angelo!

- Don't move.

- I won't let you touch me.

- What's up?

- I don't want to be touched.

The metal detector beeped,

he must have something on. Search him.

Turn.

Turn.

What do you have here?

A horseshoe!

Do you always bring it with you?

He's supersticious!

- Yes, so what?

- You can keep it.

All right? Is everybody satisfied?

- You have to find the ventriloquist!

- I call him everyday on the phone!

- Is there a bar here?

- That way.

Thanks.

- What will you say at the show?

- The truth.

- That everything is fake.

- Sure!

- This one is disagreeable!

- He already signed the contract!

Did he really get arrested,

or he's an actor?

- What do you do when you're in love?

- Like this.

me too I'd like to have an autographed

copy of the book, where is it?

Dear listeners, I'm speaking

from CSD studios' bar,

to disclose something about

today's "We are proud to present" show.

We'll have engineer Bitossi,

he set a new kidnapping record

the lasting of his kidnapping

and the amount of money paid.

11 billions

and they cut his little finger

mailed to his beautiful wife.

Then we'll have Mrs Parenti

she left husband and sons

becasue she fell in love with an alien.

Please tell us at least from which planet.

I can tell it

he's from Sirio.

From Sirio?

Where do you meet him? You said

you meet him every week!

I'm sorry but this is

just my business!

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked, in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound, as some of the greatest films of all time. Sight & Sound lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time. In a career spanning almost fifty years, Fellini won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita, was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and directed four motion pictures that won Oscars in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. In 1993, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement at the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Besides La Dolce Vita and 8½, his other well-known films include La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, Amarcord and Fellini's Casanova. more…

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