Orchestra Rehearsal

This is often talked about as Fellini’s deconstruction of contemporary Italian society, and that obviously has merit. However there’s something at this little television movie’s center that seems so blindingly obvious to me that it feels remarkable that more people don’t talk about it. Fellini was one of those directors who made incredibly personal films all the time, and I don’t think Orchestral Rehearsal is any different. I think that the presence of unions, artists, and a conductor point ...