Screening of the movie directed by Federico Fellini, with Anita Ekberg, Riccardo Billi, L. Orfei, T. Scotti, Fanfulla.
Rassegna Federico Fellini
Rassegna Fedeico FelliniTHE CLOWNS (1970)Screening of the movie directed by Federico Fellini, with Anita Ekberg, Riccardo Billi, L. Orfei, T. Scotti, Fanfulla. In collaboration with Cinecittà Luce.Anticipating Amarcord, his autobiographical masterpiece of 1973, it begins by recreating eight-year-old Federico's first experience of the circus as a dream that merges into nightmare and identifies the clowns with every small town's grotesque outsiders. It then becomes a fake documentary in which Fellini himself and a crew of incompetent assistants investigate the state of the profession in Paris and Rome with retired practitioners and historians, most of them sad and pessimistic. When an interviewer confronts the director to ask him what is the film's message, a bucket falls over Fellini's head before he can speak and another over the interviewer's. This is a question we must articulate for ourselves. Finally the movie modulates into an extended performance by a team of clowns built around the funeral of a great star of the big top. (theguardian.com)In Italian, with English subtitles.Thursday, March 31st, at 18:30Italian Cultural InstituteRehov Meir Rutberg 12 – HaifaFREE ADMISSION