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Federico Fellini: His Life and Work

In this revealing account of a lifetime spent in pictures, Tullio Kezich, film critic and Fellini's long-time friend, steps outside the mythologies that surround Fellini to explore the films, the machinations of cinema, and the man who most grandly embraced the full spectrum of its possibilities.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 446 pages

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