I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon

About this book

A year before his death the great Italian film director Federico Fellini sat down with documentary-maker Damian Pettigrew for a series of intimate in-depth interviews. Im a Born Liar contains the highlights of these conversations. With great candidness Fellini discusses every aspect of his work from his early life to his relationship with Italian culture to the inspiration behind his films. Pettigrews immensely readable interviews illuminate the life of the director of La Strada La Dolce Vita 8(tm) and other classic films and demonstrate his wild imagination his energy and his passion. Fellini reveals much on subjects ranging from women ("the unknown planet") to his neuroses ("fabulous treasure buried at the bottom of the city") to his actors ("puppets"). In between the director muses on marriage memory cinema and Marcello Mastroianni. Accompanying the interviews are 125 film stills and never-before-published photographs from the Fellini Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna. Published on the 10th anniversary of Fellinis death and in conjunction with the release of Pettigrews film of the same name Im a Born Liar provides rare insight into one of the worlds most innovative and influential directors.