Rimini (Italy) (AFP)
The Italian city of Rimini (north east) celebrated on Monday the centenary of one of his illustrious children, the filmmaker Federico Fellini, whose fantastic and surrealist universe has marked the history of the seventh art.
The director, who revolutionized cinema with his dreamlike universe, his melancholy and his vivid imagination, thanks to unforgettable films such as "La strada" (1954), "Les nuits de Cabiria" (1957), "La dolce vita" (1960), who died in Rome in 1993, would have been 100 years old on Monday.
A century after his birth, his hometown of Rimini, on the Adriatic Sea in the center of the peninsula, where he was born on January 20, 1920, is preparing a very special gift for him: a museum entirely dedicated to the master, in which poetry will mix and technology.
The city which surely inspired one of his masterpieces, Amarcord (1973), portrait of deep Italy at the height of fascism, wants the museum to be a "dream" place, like the wrote the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, because of the sets and visionary installations taken from his films.
"The dream effect will be guaranteed," said Mayor Andrea Gnassi a month ago when he presented the project for the Federico Fellini International Museum, which will be inaugurated in December 2020.
The homage to Fellini, which will last all year round, already includes an exhibition in a medieval castle entitled "Fellini 100. Immortal genius", which opened in December, as well as concerts in the historic center of the city.
After Rimini, this exhibition, which will last until March, will be traveling and will travel first to Rome, then to Los Angeles, Moscow, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Saint Petersburg, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Tirana.
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