Ageing small time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements things go badly for Augusto.
An obvious cheap-crime picture, very much on the sentimental side, and therefore thematically inferior to the two films it fell between. But it contains some very strong Fellini phases and accumulations of moods that make it well worth seeing.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
15 Jun 2005
fresh:
The most obscure film of the highly visible Federico Fellini.