Ginger and Fred Page #7

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


I'm really deaf.

Oh my God!

Who should I tell it to? I wanna go home.

Who should I tell it to?

If you allow,

we'll start from the make-up room...

Merry Christmas to everyone!

No need to move, you're working...

Mr. president, it's a great honour!

- Who is he?

- The president came to see us.

Please follow me,

I will introduce you to Borgosole's mayor.

The lady's husband has an extraordinary cow,

15 udders.

- No, Fiorenzo!

- They're 18! In stage.

President, today's show is really...

Yes, yes.

- Borgosole ?

- yes, 8.000 people,

farm workers, craftsman making

pipes, tops and bowls.

Bravi. Good evening.

- I'm not the bishop!

- Those are real tramps,

it's for the section

"metropolis' borders".

It's about our town's problems.

- We have to do it. We have to.

- This way.

He's an handsome man too.

I'm sorry about the mess,

but we'll be broadcasting live shortly.

Here's the famous singers!

We finally have the chance

to have them here.

- I'm one of their fans.

- Divine!

The lady will introduce, in an evocative way,

admiral Aulenti.

We will recall that time

by listening to soundtracks taken from some

of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films.

The lady and her partner used to

imitate those dancers.

The lady might be smaller than the actress,

but she's as nice and pleasant as her.

When I was a boy I used to spend

afternoons in my room

trying to imitate the great

Fred Astaire.

It's just his style!

May I?

Dear viewers, we wish Christmas

brought you

joy, happiness and many gifts.

the Centro Spaziale Televisivo

wants to give you one more gift:

an extraordinary

"We are proud to present" show

It will start in one hour.

Dear friends, the show is about to begin.

I'll enjoy it from my office.

It was a pleasure, madam.

Best wishes and Merry Christmas to everyone.

Mr. president, how "We are proud to present"

will bring culture to the country?

No, I have to do it!

You can't leave your place.

What would everyone say?

It was on the newspaper too!

Come on, Amelia.

Laurentina, Bonetti's age.

Who is she, do you know her?

- That one.

- Mrs. Bonetti, come here.

How old are you?

- What's this good for?

- Good for her.

The audience will see someone your age

dancing tap...

- You do dance tap, do you?

- Sure.

Then you should do it.

The audience will be moved and will applaude.

It will be good for you.

- You're right.

- Come on, how old are you?

Enough to get an applause.

It's really cold.

I'd need a cognac.

Come in, guys. Follow me.

silently, as in a church.

Slow. Slow!

Bernardino, call the director,

Everyone's here.

- May I take pictures here?

- No

Who did let you in?

Come in.

come.

Where are the doubles?

Come here!

Girls, slow. upstairs.

He doens't have a "batocco", just like you.

Pippo, should I wear a wig?

Wait here, 10.

- Madam, What are you doing?

- I have to wear it.

- The make-up's there.

- Thanks.

Come one, come to 8.

The monk! Where's the monk?

- He's here.

- We're here.

- Get ready, I'll call you.

- As you wish.

- Aurelio !

- Don't bother me.

- F*** off!

- But... You f*** off!

Merry Christmas! These two magic words - let's confess -

make us feel like children again.

Like when we were anxiously waiting

for that night

waiting for someone in the sky

to hear our voice

and fulfil our hopes for a world

full of peace and happiness.

- Nice wig!

- Serioulsy?

- Makes you look like a character.

- I didn't wear it for so long!

That man can make women pregnant

just by watching them,

do you believe it?

- Who?

- That one.

He says he studied black magic in Amazon.

- And he can get you pregnant just by looking at you?

- It may be easy, but you're losing something.

You can stare at me, there is no danger.

Let's welcome, by applauding him,

a men who's really in love.

- How are you?

- Fine, thanks.

- Your fiance?

- Here she is.

She's very beautiful! Your love story

is very moving.

He's a priest who quit because of this woman.

Nothing can stop love.

Pippo, how do I look? All right?

- Tell me the truth, does it look good?

- You're right after Mrs. Silvestri.

- Who is she?

- I have no idea!

You're 6.

Always keep watching the quadrant.

- Iolanda, take this.

- Put it with mine, please.

Shouldn't they kiss?

Come on, don Valentino,

You have to give a little kiss.

Best wishes!

What more do you want from life?

Let's go on with the show.

Do you remember me?

In Torino, during the black out.

Because of me you had a fight

with Augusto's master, he didn't want to pay me.

I'm sorry, no smoking.

Best wishes, guys.

It was a pleasure to see you again.

Arrested several times in italian prisons.

You might say:

"Arrested in a prison?"

Yes, dear friends,

Evelina Pollini used to enter in prisons

not as sentenced

but as benefactress.

She'll explain.

It was 7 PM, October 28, a few years ago.

I was in the kitchen, I heard a voice

How could I explain... mystical.

I don't think I get it.

My fiance says

heart decides on its own.

- The heart stays young.

- Is this her first wedding?

She says she's widow, twice.

You only have two minuts, what will you say?

I'm an edible panties manufacturer

and he's the one who invented such thing.

- Gabriella, please to meet you.

- They've got fruit taste,

Some customers would like tuna and onion taste.

But I don't think it's a good idea.

Two hemispheres, the first tastes like peach,

the other ones tastes like apricot.

The lover can choose... Don't move.

He bites, he chews...

It's all good stuff.

He gets excited, he feels...

We are planning to add some drugs,

vitamins, mineral salts.

What about tuna and onions?

The miracle maker monk.

Together with professor De Nittis and

his monastery warden.

- Fra Gerolamo, thanks.

- You're welcome.

- Sit down.

- No, thanks.

Such humbleness! He doesn't want to sit down.

- Change your place.

- Move to 4.

And you, please, to 2.

This is 2,

then we have to go that way.

Come on.

I don't understand what's happening.

First I ask myself what I'm doing here,

Then I'm pretending it's just a debut

in a bigger and newer theatre,.

And you? Are you all right?

No smoking here. Be quiet.

Pippo, look.

Look. We can see from here

it's the flying monk.

to get closer to the truth,

even evil

may be a way.

In my village too

we have such a saint.

My mother gave me one of his medals.

I always keep it on my chest.

I believe in these things.

Knowing your mighty powers,

I won't beg you,

to move mountains,

- but to...

- No, no, no.

A little miracle that may give

hope in the eternal.

Why not? Maybe we don't desearve it?

Everything in life is a miracle.

We just have to see it

in the things that happen.

But we're not small enough

to understand such great things.

Good luck. Wishes, madam.

We got another message.

Come, mum.

By avoiding eating and drinking,

the honorable will reach

the point of no return.

I will be his spokesman,

because he's so weak

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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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