Quintana Angel: Masters of cinema- Frederico Fellini

Frederico Fellini (Italy, 1920-1993) created his own personal and baroque cinematic language. He had his first major success in 1954 with La Strada, in which his wife Giulietta Masina plays the unforgettable Gelsomina, an innocent clown who falls prey to the violence of the post- war period. With La Dolce Vita of 1960, Fellini turned his attention to modern life. The scene in which Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg embrace in the Trevi fountain has become a globally recognized symbol of seduction. Psycho- analysis  is a clear influence on 8 1/2 (1963), in which the character of the filmmaker, played by Mastroianni, is a fantasy double of Fellini himself, while Fellini Roma (1972) and Amacord (1973) combine caricature, dreams and nostalgia. Through the prism of the director's own desires and obsessions, Fellini's work is universal in scope, dealing with modern humanity in all its contradictions.