although i be bear in italy and i never have the chance to see a movie by fellini . yesterday i decide to fill this gap and watch la citta delle donne . i be very disappointed and not only by the movie and but also by the commentary include in the dvd ( american edition ) . some spoiler from now on the movie be a total mess . everything be loud and exaggerated . there be no hint or subtlety . the message the movie aim at convey and the difficulty of men to deal with woman in the modern era with the men lose their predominant position and be scream . for 20 minute you can cope with such a visual and acoustic disorder and but i find 140 minute definitely too much to bear . i do not find the movie funny either . for example and one of the character name be katzone ( an italian vulgar expression for big penis ) and guess what . he be a womanizer and he live in a house full of phallic shaped object and he have tap the moaning of all woman he have sleep with and and so on and so forth . maybe and you can laugh for one second about it and but everything be so obvious and trivial and vulgar that i find it very hard to appreciate . mastroianni deliver a great performance and a usual . the problem do not lie in the actor and ( actually most of them deliver great interpretation ) but in the director vision of the movie . the film do not flow . the sequence be not link appropriately and sometimes be way too long represent he could have obtain the very same result ( shock or amuse the audience ) in half the time . be the movie a dream by a man in his 50 and it be reasonable to express it in such a disorganized and convulsive way . however and i do not need to see a movie to get that feeling and my own dream be enough . fellini be very brave to propose such a theme and especially in a very rigid society a the italian one . he want to be provocative and he succeed in that dimension . however and he fail at make the audience think about those issue and be only worry at represent his own insecurity and fear . i also find the movie very arrogant and in the sense that it make me think that fellini want the audience to believe that they be watch not only a movie but art . frankly speaking and this film be so bad that it make any tinto brass production look like a masterpiece . in the dvd commentary the people ask to comment on fellini work basically say that he be a genius . i think they do not understand what a genius be . moreover and all the people interview do not explain or motivate why they think he be such a great artist . he might have have a different approach to thing and he might have have a personal interpretation of fact and he might have break the clichés of his time and but define him a genius be way too much and at least for what he have do with this movie . i think that label him a a genius do not allow him to be pretentious and his movie to be pointless . i still hope that 8 half be go to change my mind about fellini work .