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"Positively Stunning!" -The New York Times
Acclaimed director Federico Fellini (Fellini's Satyricon, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2) brilliantly demonstrates why he is regarded as "the last of the great epic filmmakers," delivering "a thrilling personal memoir" (Newsweek) with this monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome - The Eternal City.
This lavish autobiography, full of "lush fantasy sequences and monumental pageantry," (Los Angels Times) begins with Fellini as a youngster living in the Italian countryside. In school he studies the eclectic but parochial history of ancient Rome and then is introduced as a young man to the real thing -- arriving in this strange new city on the outbreak of World War II. Here, through a series of "visually s | | | |