City of Women


City of Women Italian La citt delle donne is a 1980 film written and directed by Federico Fellini. Amid Fellinis characteristic combination of dreamlike, outrageous, and artistic imagery, Marcello Mastroianni plays Snporaz, a man who voyages through male and female spaces toward a confrontation with his own attitudes toward women and his wife.

Donatella leads Snporaz into a gymnasium and forces him to don roller skates. He is yet again cornered and berated by a group of angry women who circle around him in roller skates and practice testiclekicking with a dummy. Dazed, Snporaz makes his exit down a flight of stairs, falling down and badly hurting himself, and into the domain of a burly woman Jole Silvani tending to the hotels furnace. The woman showers and offers him a ride to the train station on her motorcycle, but stops by a farm and lures Snporaz into a nursery, where she tries to rape him. The rape is cut short by the womans mother, who steps in to chastise her daughter, and Snporaz decides to follow instead a lonely woman through the country side. He joins her and her girlfriends on a car ride on the promise of being delivered to the station, but the ride goes on well into the night and all they do is hang out high on drugs and listen to techno. A frustrated Snporaz ditches them and is harassed by two more cars until he finds shelter in the offlimits private property of Dr. Xavier Katzone Ettore Manni, who hails gunfire on his persecutors.Dr. Katzone promises to deliver Snporaz to the train station the following morning and invites him to stay on for a party. Snporaz walks around Katzones extravagant household, which is filled with sexual imagery and suggestive, phalic sculptures. He is also fascinated by his collection of sexual conquests hanging as photographs from the manor walls that light up and whisper arousing dialogue at the flick of a switch.Taking pride in his many inventions, Katzone celebrates his 10,000th conquest with an eccentric party that involves the blowing out of 10,000 candles and a performance by his wife, in which she sucks coins and pearls into her vagina by means of telekinesis. During the party, Snporaz comes across his exwife, Elena Anna Prucnal, who has a drunken argument with him, and meets Donatella again. ........

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