Federico Fellini: The Trail of a Genius

I was 8 years old when I first met Federico Fellini on the set of 8½, where my mother, Caterina Boratto, had the role of the mysterious lady. In 1975, when I gave him my thesis on 8½ for my BA degree, he said after reading it, "Paolino, you've x-rayed my soul." From then on, I spent a lot of time with him, and slowly I became keenly aware that I was in the company of a genius: someone who could "see things" before anyone else. With the passage of time, I was troubled that I could lose the emotion behind such encounters, for even the echo of a mother's voice can fade away over time and become inaudible; I did not want to risk that.

Federico Fellini: The Trail of a Genius is not a psychological treatise, nor a cinematic discourse, nor a display of memories. It is a multi-coloured mix of these about an artist who lived to create and who conquered the world with the magic of his films.