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| "The Trouble with Fellini" |
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The author of the colletion of essays devoted to the series of films by Federico Fellini, from "The white Sheik" to "The Voice of the Moon", makes an attempt to present the oeuvre of the great Master.
The formof the texts allows the reader to a more intimate view, at the same time offering hima role of an active participant in the dialogue.
The questions which the author raises go far beyond the commonplace interpretations of Fellini's films.Here is one of the first:
Is there anything immortal in Fellini's films? If so, what can it be?
Each film offers a different answer. It could be for instance:
The ability to to refer to different values.
Modern incarnation Of Eternal Figures.
The great film director not only tunes it to the past, but remains an artist of the future who has fought a victorious battle over the temptation to make art merely ideology.
In seeing the germ of rebirth in the fall, Fellini's attitude can be regarded as one of fortitude.
In the conversation-monologue found in "The Trouble with Fellini" certain questions continually repeat themselves.
Our readiness to find too glib answers is held back by the hope, the expression of which we can find in the "The Voice of the Moon":
And still, I think, if there were more silence (...) we could perhaps understand something more.
While reading the book our trouble with Fellini is transformed into the hope and belief, that through meditation of His creativity we can comprehend the Ideal, Harmony, Truth and Eternity.
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