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Few world-class filmmakers have done a more brilliant job of muddying the
border between life and art than Federico
Fellini. A former cartoonist and commercial artist, Fellini had a facility
for rendering chapters from his own experience into images augmented by
a passion for the circus and theater. He drew upon his wayward youth for
the international success I Vitelloni in 1953, then in 1960 evolved the
character closest to himself in the morally confused hero of La Dolce Vita,
reflecting the perils of his own achievements. His great 8 1/2 is about
a filmmaker whose fragmented reality is polluted by pressures to pick a
subject for his next movie. Fellini's
early '70s hits concerned his reminiscences of and relationship to the cities
of his adulthood and childhood. Equally poignantly personal was his relationship
with his wife, the actress Giulietta Masina, who is as crucial an icon in
Fellini's
films as Marcello Mastroianni.
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