The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco)
1 hr 25 min
It is Fellini’s first film and it fulfills all of one’s expectations of an Italian comedy from the golden era of cinema.
Comically inventive, clever, smart and charming. Although it is a classic from another time, the these are pertinent today.
Fellini pokes fun at celebrity culture, the church, the film industry and any who sells dreams.
In Rome for her honeymoon, a wide-eyed newlywed (Brunella Bovo) sneaks away from her straitlaced groom (Leopoldo Trieste) and goes in search of the White Sheik (Alberto Sordi), the dashing hero of a photographed comic strip of which she is enamored—but soon discovers that her romantic ideal may be only an illusion. Featuring a memorable appearance by Giulietta Masina (playing the character she would reprise in Nights of Cabiria) and Fellini’s first collaboration with composer Nino Rota, The White Sheik finds the director already taking up one of his favorite themes: the alchemical interplay between life and art, imagination and reality.
My favourite Fellini movie.
Orson Welles
Rated G
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- Genre:Comedy, Drama
- Director:Federico Fellini
- Cast:Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo
