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A honeymooning bride runs off after the star of a photo-comic; Fellini's first solo feature.

A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.

An opera singer's ashes are carried to sea in 1914, on a ship of absurd mourners.

Two retired dancers reunite for a television special; Masina and Mastroianni.

A Roman socialite turns 65 and looks past the parties; Sorrentino's La Dolce Vita.

Benigni wanders a countryside listening to wells; Fellini's last film.