The Voice of the Moon

The Voice of the Moon Italian La voce della luna is a 1990 Italian dramatic comedy film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, and Nadia Ottaviani. Returning to themes he first explored in La strada 1954, Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. Based on the novel Il poema dei lunatici by Ermano Cavazzoni, the film is about a fake inspector of wells and a former prefect who wander through the EmiliaRomagna countryside of Fellinis childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.

With a nod to the lunarobsessed lyrics of Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, the acerbic tale focuses on the capture of the moon by the Micheluzzi Brothers while Ivo, newly released from a mental hospital, tries to seduce Aldina Ferruzzi with whom hes infatuated. Although she wants nothing to do with him, Ivo equates her blond beauty with the moon, the origin of his madness and frustration. During the attempts to woo her, he meets various madcap characters including an oboist who sleeps in the local cemetery, a man whose hobby is meditating on rooftops, and Gonnella, the exprefect fired for his rising paranoia. Gonnella makes Ivo his lieutenant and together they investigate the wild conspiracies going on around them.The oddball pair attends a farcical beauty pageant where Aldina is crowned Miss Flour of 1989 and ends up lost in the farmlands among graceful African women chanting in the moonlight. Inside an abandoned warehouse, they discover an Infernolike disco of fashion victims bopping deliriously to Michael Jacksons The Way You Make Me Feel. Ivo realises that Aldinas shoe, obtained surreptitiously, fits every Cinderella who tries it on. To the dancers stupefaction, Gonnella orchestrates a waltz but is thrown out after smashing the disc jockeys cache of records. ........

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