Federico Fellini

Já tinha lido uma edição antiga, lançada no Brasil pela editora L&PM. Gostei muito e acho que é a melhor biografia de Fellini. Pena que nesta versão retiraram a seção com fotografias.

Tullio Kezich: Federico Fellini, His Life and Work Faber and Faber (New York), 2006 (2002),45 chapters over 440 pages, by who was probable the best film critic Italy had at the time, at the same time friend and intimus. People have funny ideas about what film critics are - a good one praises the reader's/viewer's good films, a bad one condemns them... If one ever wants a book of examples what film critics really do - look at things with a professional eye, keep emotions low and the brain alert, avoid all flattery, but praise the praiseworthy; it is as simple as that!Italians are masters of this art, which really keeps the persona from the objective, but with full sympathy. In a society with endless personal ramifications across party and more generally ideological lines -think of the neorealimo, this is quite a proof of intellectual discipline. Like all film critics, they tend to be a bit low on the praise for actors -perhaps a reaction to the Personenkult of the yellow press, and the many adorations their press agents put out. But full of active interest, and certainly read by one and all!fbuk115-Tullio Kezich: Federico Fellini -Critically positive Faber & Faber (New York), 2006 (2002), 440pp-14/2/2014

I found Tullio Kezich's biography to be splendid account of the life of a man who was probably the greatest director of the 20th century.Having lived in Rome since the sixties and having met Federico Fellini and many of the people who were part of his life, this book sums up the era and the atmosphere of that Rome, a Rome that no longer exists but one where it was possible for anything to happen, even a creation as fabulous as the mind of Federico Fellini