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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
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Title: Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Release Date: 2 Apr 2003

Runtime: 1h 45m

Genre: Documentary

Director: ARTE, Portrait & Cie, Tele+, Dream Film, Asylum Pictures

Production Companies: ARTE, Portrait & Cie, Tele+, Dream Film, Asylum Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 6.3 (25 votes)

Cast

  • Self - La Voce della Luna: Roberto Benigni
  • Self - Ami d'enfance: Luigi 'Titta' Benzi
  • Self - Ecrivain (archive footage): Italo Calvino
  • Self - Chef décorateur: Dante Ferretti
  • Self - Peintre: Rinaldo Geleng
  • Self - Toby Dammit: Terence Stamp
  • Self - Casanova: Donald Sutherland
  • Self - Scénariste: Tullio Pinelli
  • Self - Directeur de la photographie: Giuseppe Rotunno
  • Self - Producteur: Daniel Toscan du Plantier
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