Jean-Benoît Vétillard
“The more you explore this film, the more you get lost. You have to love slippage, vertigo and wandering. You have to accept Fellini’s delusions for what they are: reveries. In this film the architecture is gigantic, its aesthetics are made of fragments, the wandering is an exquisite corpse through spaces without transition. The strange property of Dr Xavier Katzone – whose wives demand its demolition – is an environment with a virile accent. Narrow galleries of portraits of women, high white marble walls highlighted by green neon, a huge dining room or gymnasium, a bedroom bathed in palm trees, a stormy night, a long slide full of childhood memories, a circus, a cage, a cellar, a courtroom, behind a wall a narrow corridor, a staircase... to finally get out into the open air and fly away in a hot-air balloon, an enormous inflatable doll”.
