He organizes an affair with a prostitute and her friend.
While the wife is absent, her husband tries to do all he can to hide the disappearance of his wife. And she decides to come back to her husband. He seems so ideal on the screen, but in reality, he turns to be different from what she expected to see. She adores him, she is fond of him, and she is creasy about him.
When the husband turns asleep, his wife runs away to the movie set where her favorite actor, the White Shake is shooting. Husband is trying to his seriousness and importance, and his wife, very calm and dreaming person, who is fond of cinematography. The film is about two young newlyweds, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste) who went on their honeymoon to Rome from a provincial town. The film did not have success, maybe because of unpopular actor Alberto Sordi. It was written for Michelangelo Antonioni, but he refused to shoot the film with a script from Fellini, so Fellini shoots the film by himself. “The White Sheik” is Fellini’s first personal film. We are going to discuss two of Fellini’s films and to understand how the films (“The White Sheik” and “8 ½”) present Fellini’s view that human experience is, fundamentally and inherently, a complex blend of dream, imagination, and fact. The relationship between reality and illusion is a central issue in Fellini’s films. Only now we may say that his last films are a heritage of that big cinematography style, which must have gone with the death of Federico Fellini. But he continued to shoot films despite the critics. The last Fellini’s films did not have big success: he was reproached in reiteration of himself, in tiredness. Fellini received “Oscar” with this film as the best foreign film and some other prizes. His biggest success was with the film “La Strada” (1954). The first film “The White Sheik” was not very popular. These films Of Federico Fellini received Oscars in different periods of his career. The other films which should be mentioned, if we have decided to analyze Fellini’s works, are “The Road”, “Nights of Cabiria”, “The Sweet Life”, “Fellini’s Casanova”. He creates the film “Variety Lights” (1950) with Alberto Lattuada. Fellini was influenced by Rossellini’s views, outlook and as a result, it influenced his future works. He was fond of painting in his childhood and when he was 17 he started to write film scripts.įellini starts his career in cinema as an assistant and scriptwriter in Rossellini’s film “Paisa”. Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920, in Italy. After such early works as I vitelloni, Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women, in such films as Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, and And the Ship Sails On.We are going to present Fellini’s films and his view that human experience is, fundamentally and inherently, a complex blend of dream, imagination, and fact. In his early career, Fellini was both a screenwriter for neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini and a newspaper caricaturist in postwar Rome, competing influences he would bring together with startling results. While his most popular-and accessible-film, the darkly nostalgic childhood memoir Amarcord, is a great entryway into his oeuvre, 8½, a collage of memories, dreams, and fantasies about a director’s artistic crisis, is perhaps his masterpiece. One of Italy’s great modern directors, Federico Fellini was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique.
Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos.Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection.Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a compelling 48-minute documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer.The Last Sequence, a new 52-minute documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½ (Blu-ray only).High-definition digital transfer of a new restoration of Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini.Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and NYU film professor Antonio Monda.Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam.High-definition digital transfer of restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on Blu-ray edition.