The presence of an onscreen surrogate was a recurrent feature of Fellini’s films, and the most celebrated of them was actor Marcello Mastroianni, whose handsome, seductive, charismatic star persona was perhaps a wish-fulfilment projection of the director’s own. Fellini’s casting of his brother Riccardo as one of the gang only underlined the film’s autobiographical resonances. Its lead character Moraldo, a Fellini-surrogate, is suffocated by Rimini’s small-town ways and – as the director himself had done – eventually leaves on a train heading to Rome. The film’s portrayal of young men idling in a seaside town on the Adriatic coast drew comparisons with the director’s early life. Our Fellini overview continues in our February 2020 issue, on sale now.Īs far back as I vitelloni (1953) Fellini was looking to his own life for inspiration. Fellini, a two-month celebration, runs at BFI Southbank through January and February 2020.
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