Orchestra Rehearsal

Orchestra Rehearsal Italian Prova dorchestra is a 1978 Italian satirical film directed by Federico Fellini. It follows an Italian orchestra as the members go on strike against the conductor. The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

An offscreen Italian television camera crew voice enacted by Fellini conducts documentarianstyle roving eye interviews with musicians preparing for a lowbudget rehearsal in a rundown auditorium formerly converted from a 13th century church presently slated for demolition, apparently. Speaking candidly and often cynically about their craft, interviewees are seen routinely interrupting one another as their artistic claims are contested or derided by orchestral peers, each selfimportantly regarding his own instrument as the most vital to group performance, the most solitary in nature or spiritual in relation these varied opinions reflecting each listeners intensely personal experience with music, one of the recurring themes of the film.The conductor arrives speaking Italian but with an affected German accent, proving theatrically critical of the ensuing performance quality and equally quarrelsome with trade union representatives on site, wearing down the orchestra members as he commands them to play with exceedingly particular nuances bordering on absurd abstraction, leading several musicians to strip away clothing under the strain of this taxing effort. ........

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