A better movie that Fellini's 8 1/2, Chanine brave enough and able to dance that he didn't have to hire Marcello Mastroianni to play a director in search of challenges. Youssra holds her own against Claudia Cardinale. Fellini also shied away from politics, whereas this movie makes cases for collective action, for democracy, and for individual choices and modes of affection. For fragments of invented movies, it takes on Shakespeare and classical military epic and Gene Kelly. A feast that includes a hunger strike.
Review of Alexandria: Again and Forever
