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While Fellini is conjuring up his world in Fellini’s Intervista, Marcello Mastroianni appears once again. For the last time, the creator and his creature are on screen together. The evocation of the glorious Cinecitta of days long gone is counterpointed by the sight of its former splendours. Marcel…

In his colossal biography, Tullio Kezich tells how Fellini, dejected by the tepid response to City of Women (1980), decided to discreetly visit cinemas in Rome to gauge audiences’ reactions for himself. He discovered that ‘the audience had changed planet, it no longer existed’.30 This mournful asse…