The read
Every source lands within 6 points of the others.
Synopsis
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Metacritic67/100
29 audience votes
Key crew
- Damian PettigrewDirector
Cast
- Roberto BenigniSelf - La Voce della Luna
- Luigi 'Titta' BenziSelf - Ami d'enfance
- Italo CalvinoSelf - Ecrivain (archive footage)
- Dante FerrettiSelf - Chef décorateur
- Rinaldo GelengSelf - Peintre
- Terence StampSelf - Toby Dammit
- Donald SutherlandSelf - Casanova
- Tullio PinelliSelf - Scénariste
- Giuseppe RotunnoSelf - Directeur de la photographie
- Daniel Toscan du PlantierSelf - Producteur
- Federico FelliniSelf (archive footage)
- Nanni MorettiSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)