City of Women

A middle-aged man who followed an attractive woman off a train and into the woods finds himself in the middle of a Feminist convention. Sharing the same nickname (Snaporaz) of his character from "8 and 1/2" and similar attire, Mastroianni once again lends himself to playing Fellini's alter ego, this time as it gets sucked into a tongue-in-cheek, nightmarish exploration of his inability to understand women. Alternating self-indulgent chauvinism with an almost masochistic self-deprecating attitude, "La città delle donne" is intermittently inspired as it feels its way around its acknowledged... read more