“I have invented myself entirely,” filmmaker Federico Fellini famously said. “A childhood, a personality, longings, dreams and memories, all in order to enable me to tell them.”
In Federico Fellini: The Complete Films, author Chris Wiegand and editor Paul Duncan take a journey through Fellini’s extensive career, covering not only his films, but moments on set and from his life. Spanning nearly half a century, the book explores everything from his directorial debut, Luci del varietà (1950), a film about travelling vaudeville performers, to filmic triumphs including La Dolce Vita (1960) and the unforgettable Satyricon (1969), through to later films such as The Voice of the Moon (1990) starring Roberto Benigni. Working alongside his wife and muse, Giulietta Massina, who starred in several of his films, Fellini was known for using the same actors, including the incomparable Marcello Mastroianni, who is considered to be Fellini’s filmic alter-ego.
The ex-slave Trimalchione (Maro Romagnoli) is a nouveau riche who likes to show off his wealth with lavish banquets and recitals of his meaningful poetry.
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