![]() ![]() Giulietta Masina in Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Mastroianni appeared in six of Fellini’s films, beginning with the smash hit La dolce vita (1960), which reflected the contemporary artistic and showbusiness milieu in Rome in which Fellini lived, and ending with Fellini’s 1987 film Intervista. The presence of an onscreen surrogate was a recurrent feature of Fellini’s films, and the most celebrated of them was actor Marcello Mastroianni, whose handsome, seductive, charismatic star persona was perhaps a wish-fulfilment projection of the director’s own. Fellini’s casting of his brother Riccardo as one of the gang only underlined the film’s autobiographical resonances. Its lead character Moraldo, a Fellini-surrogate, is suffocated by Rimini’s small-town ways and – as the director himself had done – eventually leaves on a train heading to Rome. The film’s portrayal of young men idling in a seaside town on the Adriatic coast drew comparisons with the director’s early life. Our Fellini overview continues in our February 2020 issue, on sale now.Īs far back as I vitelloni (1953) Fellini was looking to his own life for inspiration. Fellini, a two-month celebration, runs at BFI Southbank through January and February 2020. ![]()
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