FELLINI – IN SEARCH OF FACES /1

For Fellini, the search for interpreters, of faces that correspond with imagined characters, is an essential, anxious and entertaining job as exemplified by this letter to producer Pietro Notarianni.

Dear Pietro,

You ask me for a summary description of some of the film’s characters, because your French co-producer requested it of you. I’m embarrassed: it is almost impossible to draw an identikit of the characters in order to allow others to suggest possible actresses and actors.