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If you like Federico Fellini’s movies, takes advantage of this unique exhibition organized by the CaixaForum in Barcelona: “El circo de la ilusión”. Come and discover the complete works of this Italian genius who became famous after receiving the Palme d´Or at Cannes Festival in 1960 with La Dolce Vita. You can enjoy it from mid-February to mid-June.
The exhibition offers a journey through the filmmaker´s work divided into four parts: “Fellini and the popular culture”, “Fellini and his work“, “the City of Women” and “Fellini, biographical invention”. The exhibition gives an overview of the topics he was most passionate about as psychoanalysis or the music hall, and reveals the secrets of his creation. So we will see new views on his films.
Fellini was a native of Rimini, but he moved to Rome at the age of 19 where he worked in a humour magazine and wrote texts for the radio. There he met his wife, Giulietta Masina, the woman who shared his lifelong and who was his muse for many films. After helping several filmmakers, he became gradually a real artist with his own style. His first work was called Luci del varietà (1951) and his first international success, three years later, will be La Strada.
But it was with La Dolce Vita that he fascinated us. Then he became a master and people began to talk about the Fellini’s baroque. He used to create eccentric characters that caricatured the Italian society. He used a narrative without much dramatic tension and a lack of boundaries between the real world and the imaginary. Besides a great filmmaker, Fellini was a journalist, cartoonist, writer and actor! With La Dolce Vita it was born the word “paparazzi” because the journalist who took pictures of the celebrities in the movie was called Paparazzo.
We will not reveal too much about this exhibition. Better go and visit it and take advantage of your stay to explore the Catalan capital. If you rent apartments in Barcelona, you’ll ensure a cheap and pleasant stay.
