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Visually stunning and sensationalistic film is Italian master Fellini’s take on the decline of pagan Rome. Filled to the brim with cautionary sights of almost-surrealistic debauchery and depravity, the film’s most resonant image remains that of the eerie sacrificial hermaphrodite.
This article appears in August 10 • 2001.
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
