2020: Fellini's Year
Published: 09.01.2020.
The year-round film series Fellini 1920-2020 that marks the centenary of the birth of the great Italian director Federico Fellini begins in January with the evergreen La Dolce Vita at Art-kino. The opening also brings a round-table discussion on the subject of film life and work of the author, participated by Saša Stanić, Boris Ružić and Nikica Gilić.
Art-kino celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest Italian directors of all time - Federico Fellini - with the year-round series of the author's films. Each month in 2020 brings one Fellini title, and the series starts on 20 January at 19:00, on the author's birthday, with the cult evergreen La Dolce Vita. The screening is preceded by a round-table discussion, starting at 18:00, on the topic of film life and creativity of Federico Fellini, with the participation of croatist Saša Stanić, culturologist Boris Ružić and filmologist Nikica Gilić.
In 2020, along with La Dolce Vita, the films screened throughout the year will be The Clowns (I clowns, 1970), 8½ (1963), I vitelloni (1953), Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti, 1965), The Road (La strada, 1954), Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, 1976), Fellini's Roma (Roma, 1972), The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco, 1952) and Satyricon (1969).
The opening film, La Dolce Vita, is a work in which Fellini steps out of neorealism and supremely (the Cannes Grand Prix) announces a new, modernist phase in his work that moves the focus of the cameras from a neglected province and hopes of little people towards the life of the metropolis, and sets the thematic focus on individuals in an identity crisis.
La Dolce Vita is a playful critique of a saturated society filled with boredom and in search of sensations, and follows one day in life of journalist Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), surrounded by glamour and spectacle with which, due to his spiritual impotence, he can no longer be identified.
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) is an Italian film director and one of the most famous and prominent film-makers after World War II. He began his fruitful and successful career under the influence of the neorealism, gradually developing his own signature of modern sensibility and refined style, sharp social criticism and satire with a peculiar gift of observation. Along with Vittoria de Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti, Fellini is one of Italian most notable film-makers.
Tickets can be booked via email (ulaznice@art-kino.org) and purchased at the Art-kino box office every day from 16:00 to 20:30 or online (www.ulaznice.hr).