Usual Fellini style carnival, this time adaptation of Petronius' novel. Too beautiful for its own good, it doesn't measure up to stylistically similar Pasolini's retelling of classic novels. Not angry enough, and too self-aware, the story of odyssey of a young man through nightmarish surrealism of ancient Rome, is so masterfully done, so unlike Pasolini's minimalistic fantasies, it doesn't quite gets where it wants to.
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