Sunday 15 February 2026 14:30
languages : version allemande locations : Théâtre des Capucins
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
