And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va)
Part of the BAMcinématek series The Late Film
Thu, May 14 at 6:50pm
Directed by Federico Fellini
With Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford
(1983) 128min
"'And the Ship Sails On'" floats serenely above the realities of ordinary movies - not to deny the validity of those realities but to expand the imagination." —New York Times
After Nino Rota’s death, Fellini found musical inspiration from an art form that he had previously dismissed as too typically Italian—opera. A group of artists and aristocrats on the eve of WWI sail on a cellophane sea to scatter the ashes of a great opera star. The film features choreographer Pina Bausch in a small role as a blind duchess. English language version.
New York Times on And the Ship Sails On
"Like 'Amarcord,' Mr. Fellini's new work is enchantingly stylized, a bold testament to the artifice of studio-made movies, which the onetime neo-realist director ('La Strada,' 'Nights of Cabiria') now makes his message as well as his style." More