Fellini’s work is like a treasure chest you open it up and there’s a world of wonders-sparkling visions of beauty, terror, absurdity-where the ancient and the modern become one, where all the barriers between reality and fantasy just shatter before your eyes." “It’s not enough to call Fellini a filmmaker-he was a maestro. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealism, and though he soon spun off on his own freewheeling creative axis, he never lost that grounding, evoking his dreams, memories, and obsessions in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity.īringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema.
14 films from the maestro of Italian cinema together for the first time