Dante, Leopardi, and Kafka move through Fellini’s cinema as inner voices rather than literal citations.

From hellish journeys to the contemplation of the infinite and Kafkaesque labyrinths, literature becomes vision.

Words are transformed into images that question the very meaning of existence.

Animals in Fellini’s films burst in like apparitions, without explanation or rigid symbolism.

Peacocks, fish, and rhinoceroses open cracks in realism and shift the order of the human world.

They are living images that reveal, rather than decorate, the deep sense of the scenes.

In Fellini’s cinema, sound often precedes the image and orientates its meaning.

The collaboration with Nino Rota built a musical universe made of memorable melodies, noises, and asynchronous voices.

Between music, dubbing, and inhabited silences, audio becomes narrative material.

Wind, water, and fog in Fellini’s cinema are not background elements but an emotional screenplay.

The natural elements shift the meaning of the scenes, opening gateways between reality, memory, and dream.

The weather thus becomes an invisible grammar that guides the spectator’s gaze.

Fellini portrays death as a transition rather than an end, moving through funerals in motion and cemeteries crossed by life. The epilogues of his films oscillate between irony, melancholy, and dreamlike vision. Even the goodbye becomes a theatrical gesture, suspended between the here and the beyond.

Eroticism in Fellini’s cinema is clumsy, childlike, and deeply imaginative.

Desire is born as a comic impulse, mixes with guilt, and often resolves in frustration.

Between laughter and embarrassment, the body becomes the site of an eternal apprenticeship of desire.

For Fellini, actors are sonic and physical instruments, guided like consenting puppets.

Marcello Mastroianni becomes his elastic alter ego—an ironic and melancholic mirror moving through different films and identities.

Beside him, other unforgettable masks compose a gallery of bodies that give shape to the Fellinian dream.

Giulietta Masina is the emotional compass of Fellini’s cinema, the key that regulates its tone and sensitivity.

Through characters like Gelsomina and Cabiria, she embodies a fragile strength capable of resisting pain without losing wonder.

Her gaze into the camera transforms cinema into a direct encounter with the spectator.