And the Ship Sails On - Criterion Collection
by Federico Fellini
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Actor: Barbara Jefford, Elisa Mainardi, Freddie Jones, Peter Cellier, Victor PolettiDirector: Federico Fellini
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of And the Ship Sails On - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Another underrated Fellini film...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is really a charming, sweet, intelligent chapter in the Fellini saga. Made in 1983, when great film artists like Fellini were having difficulty getting projects financed, it stands as another underrated gem from Federico. Many critics have said that Fellini never made a good film after Amarcord, but that simply isn't true. This film is as wonderful as that film. It's not as surreal as 8 1/2, but it still stands on its own. The opening scene is shot on an old hand crank camera, and it's a beautiful set up for what's about to come. The whole film is shot in a studio, complete with a fake skyline and a fake ocean, but Fellini never attempts to make it look real, which is why the film works so well. I remember watching this with an ex of mine, and it turned out to be her first (and probably only) exposure to a foreign film. Shortly after watching this with me, she dumped me for a piece of white trash (who shortly dumped her). Hopefully, Fellini wasn't responsible, but then I'd rather watch a Fellini film over a bad relationship anyday. Another great filmmaker, Catherine Breillat, worked on this film as well. It's probably the happiest film she ever did. Freddie Jones, a British actor (Firefox, The Elephant Man, Pennies from Heaven), fits right into Fellini's scheme of things, even though he's dubbed in Italian. All the actors have the "Fellini face" here, and it's a wonderful film. Most of all, I love the rhinoceros. Remember, they give excellent milk.
Summary of And the Ship Sails On - Criterion Collection
In Fellini's quirky, imaginative fable, a motley crew of European aristocrats (and a lovesick rhinoceros!) board a luxurious ocean liner on the eve of World War I to scatter the ashes of a beloved diva. Fabricated entirely in Rome's famed Cinecitt? studios, And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va) reaches spectacular new visual heights with its stylized re-creation of a decadent bygone era. Criterion is proud to present this rarely-seen gem in an exclusive widescreen transfer with new English subtitles.Federico Fellini's 1984 And the Ship Sails On is one of the late master's most fanciful projects, while simultaneously striking one of the most somber notes in the director's filmography. The year is 1914, the eve of World War?I and the coming destruction of Europe's old, cultured aristocracy, an elite class mourned in many a film from Renoir's The Grand Illusion to Truffaut's The Green Room. A luxury liner sets sail from Italy, full of artists, a royal entourage, and one rhinoceros. The point of the voyage is to scatter the ashes of a world-famous diva, but the exotic passengers--blithely unaware of the imminent conflict--have many, more private intrigues going on behind closed doors. Still, it is the self-containment and formality of these travelers, at once absurd and moving, that sticks with the viewer: the way the many singers, musicians, and conductors (and one plump archduke) seem aware, in public, of embodying a privileged history. Fellini films all the action aboard an impressively lush and blatantly artificial set, with a painted sky, paper moon, and cellophane sea, all underscoring the dreamy, precious nature of this adventure. The camera itself becomes a kind of character via a determined journalist (Freddie Jones) who speaks to us directly, drawing the film into vaguely obscene disruptions of an otherwise serene formalism. --Tom Keogh
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