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Fellini's Intervista is basically a film that Fellini did about himself. It's something like Roma in that it's something like a documentary and in that it films the film crew as well as the film. This is basically an autobiographical trip through "Felliniland", complete with everything from drum majorettes to just about anything you can imagine.

After a longish set up, the film takes us to "Cinecetta", the studio where Fellini spent a goodly portion of his life. At Cinecetta, we talk to the Japanese film crew he's hired for the occasion and we flash back to his early days as a journalist: He'll be interviewing an Italian cinema superstar today and gets to hang out and watch the filming of her newest show afterwards. It's not quite a riot, but things do get pretty heated on the set. Next, we take the train and find out just where Fellini gets all the unusual "faces" he uses in his films. From here on in we watch a younger version of Fellini go through a few of the experiences that Federico went through when he was a youngster, visit with Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni and watch while this film gets filmed.

This is a "different" sort of movie. It doesn't actually fall neatly into any genre categories. Fellini is just using any pretense of a narrative as an excuse to goof around and to show us his world. It's pretty pleasant: no real pretense and no nonsense. Just a couple of days at his studio where you can watch how they do things there. You'll probably have to be a Fellini or, at least, a film fan to enjoy this but, it is an interesting, fun, film that will fill the needs of both the former and the latter quite nicely. This is a lovely, warm and very human look at the man that gave us so much of cinema and; it's done by that very same man.

Federico Fellini