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Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime cel... read more read more...ebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (hoping to become the Fred and Ginger of Italy), Amelia and Pippo parted company to pursue their separate lives. Neither one was particularly successful in other fields of endeavor, so when after many years Amelia is offered a guest-star gig on a TV variety show, she jumps at the chance. She also seeks out her former partner, Pippo, who may have looked like Astaire in his younger days, but now....The overall good cheer of the film was dampened when the real Ginger Rogers sued the distributors of Ginger and Fred for "defamation of character." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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PG-13, 2 hr. 6 min.

Directed by: Federico Fellini

Release Date: January 13, 1986

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  • SirPant
    November 16, 2011
    SirPant
    Ginger & Fred is a typically playful satire from Fellini targeting Television of the 'Light entertainment' variety. It's funny though, the exaggerations are pretty much bang on the money these days but as clever as the lampooning is, it's the performances and the on screen relati... read moreonship between the ever wonderful Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina that really make this film the diamond that it is. Very Italian, very Fellini, very funny and very lovely. Highly recommended.
  • binky013
    April 28, 2007
    binky013
    Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni play Rogers and Astaire imitators who are professionally reunited after being apart for some 35 years. Masina and Mastroianni, themselves in their golden years here, are finely and most appropriately cast as figures from a nostalgic long... read more ago.

    Fellini definitely is no fan of the television generation that has displaced true entertainers like Ginger and Fred, and as Masina says in the end, "We will never dance again." In fact, both actors were very near the end of their careers and their lives. I'll label this one "bittersweet" as well.

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Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

When, as happens on several occasions, Amelia and Pippo become an integral part of the impressionistic film that surrounds them, instead of just being witnesses to it, Ginger and Fred ranks with the b... Full Review

Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

The film isn't a particularly pleasurable experience (the satire of television is broad and wayward, and the attempts to wring pathos from Ginger and Fred's geriatric infirmities fall far short of the... Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
September 19, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's one of Fellini's more accessible and warmer films. Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
March 10, 2007
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

Marks the first pairing of Fellini veterans Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina and, from their instant chemistry, you'd think they'd been together for years. Full Review

August 29, 2006
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A warm and very human story about two people who share a little bit of love, interwoven with director Fellini's diatribe against the inanity of the modern television age. Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
August 26, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

Boasts an affecting performance by Giulietta Masina as one member of a dance team. Full Review

Jake Euker
July 17, 2005
Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

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Emanuel Levy
June 13, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Jules Brenner
December 10, 2004
Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

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Carol Cling
August 22, 2003
Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

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