Talbot Green I was pleased to try it out, and frankly lunch was so good that I took my wife there for a meal on the weekend. The menu is certainly interesting and the food is well prepared, nicely presented and delicious. This is real cooking at Pizza Express prices so if you like good good then go there and try it. La voce della luna 1. Not many directors would choose the end of their career to head off in an entirely new direction, but that is very much what Fellini does here. This was his first film based on a novel Ermanno Cavazzonis Il poema dei lunatici and quite a radical departure in terms of style. Directed by Federico Fellini. With Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi. The amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released. In a move which apparently alienated many of his traditional audience, the film world is almost entirely the one experienced by the central characters, Ivo Salvini and to a lesser extent Gonnella. This subjectivity of approach was of course used in 8 12 but in a less extreme and clearly autobiographical way. Here, Fellini makes the brave decision to keep contextualisation and explanation to a minimum, leaving the unwary viewer flailing about in search of a foothold. As Ivos state of mind drifts between lucidity and hallucination, we seldom know what is real and what is imagined, even down to the words spoken by other characters. Felliniesque themes such as the lovefear of women, religious superstition and motifs like madonna statues and mountains of pasta are revisited from this rather skewed perspective, but the film overall has a dislocated feel which is far away from the likes of Roma or Amacord. Interestingly, Benigni is asked to act here, rather than doing his usual schtick, and does well as a Chaplinesque figure who occasionally reminds one of Guilietta Masina. This is certainly not what you might call classic Fellini he confessed to a crisis of confidence writing it but there is much to enjoy and to wonder at in this last work. The man himself regarded it as the orphan of his films and hoped it would come to be better regarded. Devotees of Terry Gilliam will note the original of the waltz scene lifted for the following years Fisher King.