Federico Fellini

Autobiography inflated into carnival. Fellini moved from neorealism into procession, circus and dream, filming memory as parade and letting spectacle replace plot entirely.

Signature

• Processions, carnivals and grotesque faces as recurring motif.
• Dream and memory intercut with no marker between them.
• Nino Rota's scores giving scenes a circus rhythm.
• The director's own life reworked as fantasia.