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"In 1963, with the revolutionary ""8 1/2"", Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens - and changed the art of cinema. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini's long-time friend Tullio Kezich has written the work against which all other biographies of the filmmaker will be measured. In this moving and intimately revealing account of a lifetime spent in pictures, Kezich utilises his friendship with Fellini to step outside the mythologies that surround him - many of which are of the director's own making. A great lover of women and a meticulous observer of dreams, Fellini, perhaps more than any other director of the twentieth century, created films that embodied a thoroughly modern sensibility, eschewing traditional narrative along with religious and moral precepts. His is the art of delicate pathos, of episodic films that directly address the intersection of reality, fantasy, and desire that existed as a product of mid-century Italy - a country that was reeling from a Fascist regime as it struggled with an outmoded Catholic national identity. As Kezich reveals, the dilemmas Fellini presents in his movies reflect not only his personal battles but also those of Italian society. The result is a biography that explores both the machinations of cinema and the man who most grandly embraced the full spectrum of its possibilities."

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'A loving, passionate, wonderfully detailed, and exquisitely written look at one of the few truly indispensable film artists who have come our way, from one of the people who knew him and his films best. I can't think of a better companion piece to the incomparable work of Federico Fellini.' - MARTIN SCORSESE 'He has been graced with a profusion of books - some thirty in English, French and Italian at last count - but Tullio Kezich's biography surpasses them all. Trenchant in its critical analysis, absorbing and sympathetic in its account of his private life, Kezich's 'Fellini' is a revelation. It effaces virtually everything written to date about the Italian maestro.' - PETER COWIE, 'THE NATION' 'Both an outsider (Kezich is one of the best, if not 'the' best Italian film critic) and an insider (as screenwriter, playwright, and occasionally producer). Tullio Kezich was in the ideal position to write the best biography of Fellini, an analytical study of his work combined with the story of his relationship to Italian cinema and society. Kezich's forty-year friendship with the maestro allows him to offer up an intimate and lively portrait of Fellini, filled with revealing anecdotes and psychological insight.' - MICHEL CIMENT (author of 'Kubrick' and 'Kazan on Kazan')

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Tullio Kezich is the film critic for 'Corriere della Sera'. The author of numerous books on cinema, as well as other subjects, he is also a playwright whose work is widely performed throughout Europe.

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