Fellini Satyricon (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Federico Fellini's career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius's classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men-the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus-as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

Starring: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone, Max Born, Mario Romagnoli, Lucia Bosé, Fanfulla, Capucine, Alain Cuny, Pasquale Baldassare, Giuseppe Sanvitale, Hylette Adolphe, Magali Noël, Gordon Mitchell, Wolfgang Hillinger, Elisa Mainardi, Tanya Lopert

Director: Alberto Grimaldi