Fellini on Fellini

by Federico Fellini

The dreamer’s confessions.

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you make things out of your own life and want to sit with a master who did the same

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Fellini on Fellini is the circus master pulling back the tent flap — a collection of essays, interviews, and reflections that reveal how life and dream fused in his films. With equal parts candor and mischief, Fellini muses on art, memory, sex, Catholic guilt, and the glorious chaos of imagination. It’s the self-portrait of a filmmaker who believed reality was only ever raw material for fantasy — and fantasy, the most honest truth of all.

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Themes: creative process historical memory

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