Monday 21 September 2026 19:00
languages : vostEN locations : Cercle Cité - Auditorium 2e étage
synopsis
In a small town, Checco, the manager of a struggling theatre troupe, encounters the starry-eyed Lily. She quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco’s mistress. But the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions…
Like a preliminary sketch for a vast and splendid mural, it unfolds Fellini’s wonderful vision of life in all its joy and sadness, hope and fear, triumph and defeat, that emerges fully in the later movies.
Los Angeles Times
With its tale of a peripatetic band of low-rent theatre types, Variety Lights incorporates many, if not most, of Fellini’s signature themes.
Slant Magazine
