Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur
Release: 2003-04-02
·Runtime: 105m
·★ 6.1
Documentary
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
Production Countries
France
Italy
United Kingdom
Production Companies
ARTE
Portrait & Cie
Tele+
Dream Film
Asylum Pictures
Cast
Roberto Benigni
as Self - La Voce della Luna
Italo Calvino
as Self - Ecrivain (archive footage)
Dante Ferretti
as Self - Chef décorateur
Terence Stamp
as Self - Toby Dammit
Donald Sutherland
as Self - Casanova
Tullio Pinelli
as Self - Scénariste
Giuseppe Rotunno
as Self - Directeur de la photographie
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
as Self - Producteur
Federico Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
Nanni Moretti
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Claudia Cardinale
as Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alain Cuny
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ennio Flaiano
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ettore Manni
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Giulietta Masina
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marcello Mastroianni
as Giuseppe Mastorna (archive footage) (uncredited)
