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Fellini brings back his cast of performers in "And the Ship Sails On." This time it is a troupe of opera and classical musicians. They board a ship to sail to the birth island of a deceased fellow opera diva, who asked that her ashes be scattered there.
Performance plays a large part in "And the Ship Sails On": music, opera, dance, melodrama, and finally film.
The most whimsical is the resurrection of the dead diva through a film projector, obsessively hand cranked by a deeply admiring conductor.
As her silent image (paradoxically, for this singing star) flickers in black and white on the make-shift screen of scarves strewn across a rectangular shape, the lovely, light music of Debussy's piano suite "Clair de Lune" provides the perfect sound.