A Fellini museum, as lavish as his movies
Federico Fellini is one of a select group of movie directors to have gotten an Oxford English Dictionary-sanctioned adjective: Felliniesque, which is defined as fantastic, bizarre; lavish, extravagant. That description could easily apply to the Fellini Museum, which opened in the Italian coast city of Rimini the directors birthplace earlier this month: a multimedia project that draws visitors into Fellinis idiosyncratic cinematic universe. The museum is at turns fantastic (pages from the so-called Book of Dreams, Fellinis drawings and musings on his nighttime reveries, appear on a wall when visitors blow on a feather); lavish (it includes outlandish costumes from the liturgical fashion show in his 1972 film Roma); and bizarre (what to make of a gigantic plush sculpture of actress Anita Ekberg, which visitors can recline on to watch
Federico Fellini is one of a select group of movie directors to have gotten an Oxford English Dictionary-sanctioned adjective: Felliniesque, which is defined as fantastic, bizarre; lavish, extravagant. That description could easily apply to the Fellini Museum, which opened in the Italian coast city of Rimini the directors birthplace earlier this month: a multimedia project that draws visitors into Fellinis idiosyncratic cinematic universe. The museum is at turns fantastic (pages from the so-called Book of Dreams, Fellinis drawings and musings on his nighttime reveries, appear on a wall when visitors blow on a feather); lavish (it includes outlandish costumes from the liturgical fashion show in his 1972 film Roma); and bizarre (what to make of a gigantic plush sculpture of actress Anita Ekberg, which visitors can recline on to watch