Essential Fellini is one of the most elegantly designed and supplement-packed sets that Criterion has ever released.
Art of the Real 2015: The Royal Road, The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk, & Becoming Anita Ekberg
by Sean Nam
Fundamentally, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road is a paean to the Bay Area landscape.
Fellini’s unsparing odyssey of corrosive wealth and anxious commonality is given a reliably peerless A/V transfer from Criterion.
The title is the only amusing thing about this dull work of nunsploitation cinema.
The good life remains but a dream, but the lust for life is tireless, torturous, unabated.