Satyricon

May, 1970

Satyriconthe protean creator of "la dolce vita," "8-1/2" and "juliet of the spirits" casts some light--darkly--on the message and metaphysics of his latest filmI first read the Satyricon of Petronius a long time ago, in school, with the pleasure and the morbid curiosity of the adolescent. The memory of that first distant reading has never left me during all these years, but little by little it was transformed into a constant and obscure temptation to which, three ye...