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Fellini I'm a Born Liar, 2002

Starring: Federico Fellini

Directed by: Damian Pettigrew

Written by: Damian Pettigrew

Language: English, Italian, French

Country: France, Italy, UK

Runtime: 105 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.8

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Fellini I'm a Born Liar can be described as contemplative, stylized, and sincere. The plot revolves around aging, filmmaking, and introspection. The main genres are foreign and documentary. In terms of style, Fellini I'm a Born Liar is talky. In approach, it is realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Fellini I'm a Born Liar is located in Italy.

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Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini created one of cinema's most distinct, influential, and lasting bodies of work over the course of his legendary career. Fellini's films explored the director's innermost fears, dreams, and desires with uncompromising originality, and forever changed cinema in the process. In this documentary from Damian Pettigrew, audiences get to hear from the director himself, who was interviewed just months before his passing in October 1993. Fellini isn't a theorist, and that's what makes his discourses so entertaining. He proves that his films were true expressions of the subconscious, without the over-intellectualizing that plagued the work of so many of his peers. In addition to clips from 8 1/2 and LA DOLCE VITA, Pettigrew presents behind-the-scenes footage of Fellini directing SATYRICON and AMARCORD. This footage provides greater insight into the director's almost comically two-dimensional view of actors, who he treated more like puppets than actual human beings. Corroborating this are several actors who worked with Fellini on different projects, including Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, and Roberto Benigni. A must-see for film aficionados, I'M A BORN LIAR only adds to the director's already boundless mystique and charm.

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Language:	English, Italian, French
Country:	France, Italy, UK
Release date:	2 April 2003
Runtime:	105 min

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Washington Post

And if the movie's not particularly visual -- apart from the excerpted scenes from Fellini's extremely visual films -- it's entertaining for the ears. Fellini talks and talks. And like many directors, he talks a good life. Full Review

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by: Desson Thomson

Entertainment Weekly

It's a messy, entertaining documentary rooted in -- though not limited to -- the iconically indulgent years of Fellini's later career. Full Review

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by: Owen Gleiberman

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