Lyrical and visceral.
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05/16/03
Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:28
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini created one of cinema's most distinct, influential, and lasting bodies of work over the course of his legendary career. Fellini's films explored the director's... [More]
Starring: Federico Fellini, Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Roberto Benigni
Director: Damian Pettigrew
Reviews for Fellini I'm a Born Liar
Born liar or windbag? Either way, Fellini clearly likes telling women to spread their legs. Wider.
05/14/03
Includes generous clips of Fellini's great 8½ (1963) which is, to this day, clearly a more compelling Fellini biography than anything Pettigrew could have come up with.
05/02/03
It goes in circles and wears out its welcome, except for the most hard-core enthusiasts.
05/02/03
Offers us a close-up look at a director who was foremost a visual master, capable of creating the kind of unsettling images that haunt you forever.
05/02/03
If you know little about Fellini, this is not the place to start. Begin with the films.
05/02/03
Top CriticThe film, for all its frustrating qualities, does bring us closer to this intriguing, seductive and admittedly devious artist.
05/01/03
Presents a very limited and limiting view of the film artist whose massively influential achievements in the cinema gave rise to the adjective 'Fellini-esque.'
04/30/03
A worthy and often exquisite tribute to memory and art, to truth and contradiction.
04/25/03
It comes together to convey a good sense of his temperament and working methods.
04/25/03
Rather earthbound in light of its fantastical subject, but it makes up for its lack of style through sheer access to the artist near the end of his life.
04/22/03
While I'm a Born Liar assumes too much knowledge of Fellini's oeuvre and place in film history to be of much use as an general introduction ... the legendary director's enthusiastic participation makes it a must-see for buffs.
04/11/03
A movie that will be treasured by those who love Fellini, just as surely as it will confound and bore anyone not particularly familiar with or fond of the great Italian director.
04/11/03
Both completely fascinating and intermittently frustrating; however, as with Fellini's own films, the downside is far outweighed by the pluses.
04/10/03
Top CriticPettigrew assumes that Fellini was a genius, and while this film won't convince any skeptics, the maestro's fans can sink into it like a hot bath.
04/10/03
The best documentary yet about the great Italian master.
04/10/03
A fitting tribute to the born liar.
04/04/03
General audiences will regret the absence of titles identifying various clips and interviewees, but Fellini fans will want to eat the whole thing up with a spoon.
04/02/03
It's fascinating to hear Fellini talk about himself and his work.
04/02/03
Best understood not as a biography but as a kind of master class, a seminar in aesthetics conducted by Fellini, with ample and intelligent footnotes supplied by Mr. Pettigrew.
04/02/03
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