Retired dancers Amelia (Giulietta Masina) and Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni), who when younger danced as Astaire-Rogers imitators, are invited to reunite on a strange, vulgar TV variety-show. The film showcases Fellini's distain for television (and perhaps the times in general, considering the ample piles garbage on the streets of Rome). The characters include a number of the director's usual grotesques (the multi-udder cow is frequently seen) and the heavy-handed satire of television goes on a bit long but the film's weaknesses are more than made up for by the always delightful Masina, an 'honestly aged' Mastroianni, and their final 'reunion dance'. I prefer the auteur's early neo-realist films (such as 1954's 'La Strada') but found 'Ginger and Fred' entertaining in an offbeat romantic way.
Review of Ginger & Fred
