Immortal genius' ends in March but will then travel to Rome and on to cities including Los Angeles, Moscow and Berlin.Offering a collection of drawings, costumes, original scripts and letters, videos, and immersive multimedia presentations, three major elements of the museum include: If you took his films away, there would be a giant chunk of cinema missing,' Lynch told filmmaker Chris Rodley.įellini played 'a shameless game of reflections and autobiographical projections' with his actors, the exhibition said. They're so magical and lyrical and surprising and inventive. US director David Lynch, who shares the same birthday as Fellini, in 1997 declared his love for the 'maestro from Rimini'. 'These are the three qualities of his art, qualities which also created 'made in Italy', and that's why Fellini, besides having told the story of our country the best, is also the person who best represents it,' he said.įellini has inspired generations of directors since, including Britain's Peter Greenaway and Spain's Pedro Almodovar. His films embodied a sense of irony, the ability to invent, and a sense of beauty, said Leonetti. 'If you take Fellini's films, like 'Amarcord', 'La Dolce Vita', 'I Vitelloni', when you watch them all, it's as if you're flicking through a history book, you travel through the history of our country, the history of Italy, from the 1930s to the 1980s,' Leonetti told AFP.įellini was initially appreciated more abroad than in Italy, where he frequently scandalised the conservative society of the 1950s. Originally an artist and caricaturist, Fellini paid to watch films as a child at Rimini's Fulgor cinema by drawing caricatures, and his films remain caricatures of society. The show includes some of the more spectacular costumes from his films, as well as frequently erotic extracts from the sketchbooks of his dreams he created for his psychotherapist over a 30-year period. 'Rimini is everywhere in Fellini's cinema, the countryside in his films is Rimini's countryside, the sea in all Fellini's films is Rimini's sea,' said Marco Leonetti of the Rimini Cinematheque which helped put on the exhibition. On Monday the city will cut a giant cake in his honour on the main piazza. The city is marking the centenary with a special exhibition and is due to open a museum dedicated to Fellini, who died in 1993, by the end of the year. But he set his 1973 masterpiece 'Amarcord', a semi-autobiographical comedy about an adolescent boy growing up in 1930s fascist Italy, in the Adriatic resort of Rimini where he was born on January 20, 1920.

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