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Masters of Cinema: Federico Fellini

Àngel Quintana

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Federico Fellini is a major figure in the history of cinema, who created his own highly personal and baroque cinematic language. He had his first major success in 1954 with La Strada, in which his wife and favourite actress Giulietta Masina plays the unforgettable Gelsomina, an innocent clown who falls prey to the violence of the post-war period. With La Dolce Vita of 1960, Fellini turned his attention to modern life and the scene in which Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg embrace in the Trevi fountain has become a globally recognized symbol of seduction. Psychoanalysis is a clear influence on 8 1/2 , in which the character of the film-maker, played by Mastroianni, is a fantasy double of Fellini himself, while Fellini Roma and Amarcord are highly personal, combining caricature, dreams and nostalgia. In the 1980s Fellini made Ginger and Fred and Intervista , both melancholic reflections on the death of cinema. Through the prism of the director’s own desires and obsessions, Fellini’s work is universal in scope, dealing with modern humanity in all its contradictions.

Pages: 104

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Release: June 01, 2011

ISBN: 286642607X

ISBN 13: 9782866426071

Masters of Cinema: Federico Fellini

Àngel Quintana

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Federico Fellini is a major figure in the history of cinema, who created his own highly personal and baroque cinematic language. He had his first major success in 1954 with La Strada, in which his wife and favourite actress Giulietta Masina plays the unforgettable Gelsomina, an innocent clown who falls prey to the violence of the post-war period. With La Dolce Vita of 1960, Fellini turned his attention to modern life and the scene in which Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg embrace in the Trevi fountain has become a globally recognized symbol of seduction. Psychoanalysis is a clear influence on 8 1/2 , in which the character of the film-maker, played by Mastroianni, is a fantasy double of Fellini himself, while Fellini Roma and Amarcord are highly personal, combining caricature, dreams and nostalgia. In the 1980s Fellini made Ginger and Fred and Intervista , both melancholic reflections on the death of cinema. Through the prism of the director’s own desires and obsessions, Fellini’s work is universal in scope, dealing with modern humanity in all its contradictions.

Pages: 104

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Release: June 01, 2011

ISBN: 286642607X

ISBN 13: 9782866426071

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