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La città delle donne
ITALY · 1980

La città delle donne

Federico Fellini
feminist discourse male fantasy and desire surrealism gender power dynamics dreamlike narrative
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Synopsis

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

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