Do you know one of the biggest hits of the American seventies? You won't get to see the legendary and epic musical All that Jazz on the big screen very often. Director and dancer Bob Fosse's masterpiece, stunning in thought and choreography, music and dance, is a tragicomic autobiography, presented in the form of an extraordinary musical. The film is a Fellini-esque vision of an artist obsessed with his work and driven to ruin by the murderous pace of life. The main character of the story predicted the director's own death with chilling conviction. A groundbreaking work, suggesting a meaningful journey beyond the conventions of genre, it is visually extraordinarily appealing. The final agonizing passage is stylized into a grand number in which all of the artist's loved ones are reunited in the form of phantoms, and is capped with a symbolic afterlife ride into the arms of the coquettish Angel of Death.
Fosse's obsessive theme of a talented filmmaker's existential ambitions in the midst of mass culture is combined with musical form with extraordinary naturalness, creating a kind of unassailable musical CITIZEN KANE or 8 1/2. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes ex aeque in 1980 with KAGEMUSHA and won the Academy Award for sets, costumes, editing and music the same year. The film was also nominated for Oscars for direction, screenplay, and for Roy Scheider's performance, as well as in the "best film of the year" category.
Czech subtitles
Drama / Musical / Comedy / Musical
USA, 1979, 123 min
Directed by: Bob Fosse
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