FEDERICO FELLINI MOVIE
It’s easy to see how compelling these films were from the imaginative movie posters taken from around the world.Ĩ ½ - whose working title was “the beautiful confusion” - is often considered his masterpiece and a contender for one of the greatest movies ever made. It all started with a nervous breakdown. Criterion’s lovingly designed career-spanning box set resembles an old scrapbook salvaged from an imaginary circus. His way of mixing grand opulence with postmodern unease made him an essential fixture in world cinema from the postwar era well into the ‘70s. Fellini basked in his artificial worlds while self-consciously placing his all-too-human fears and anxieties in the center.
Fellini started off as a cartoonist after he moved to war-ravaged Rome and never lost that comic sensibility.Īs delightful as Fellini’s storytelling often is, it burrows underneath luscious surfaces and zany caricatures in order to discover the humanity squirming beneath all the glittering surfaces. This type of vision works best in visual mediums, where the image carries the most meaning.
Everyone is performing, clad in outrageous costumes and masks, creating a transparent carnival where the extraordinary is reality. Fellini had a lifelong fascination with the circus as a magical space where everyday reality is transcended, enhanced. But we shouldn’t shrug it off entirely either: there’s truth to be found in a tall tale, even if it’s told by your wicked uncleįactually true or not, the essence of Fellini’s filmmaking is in that anecdote. Yet considering that Fellini openly admitted to being “a born liar,” we don’t have to take his yarn at face value. Quite an experience for an imaginative little fellow. While wandering awestruck under the big top, he hung out with circus folk and wound up tending to a sick zebra. When he was a young boy, maybe about seven or eight years old, Federico Fellini stole away from home in his small seaside resort town of Remini and joined the circus.