Fellini made fake TV ads so unhinged they got banned from his own movie.
Immediately preceding INTERVISTA, director Federico Fellini made GINGER AND FRED (1986). For that film, Fellini created a number of comically exaggerated television advertisements, but most ultimately went unused and unseen until they were presented in this 2003 collection for Italian television.
Direction
Fellini's commercial parodies are more inventive than actual ads.
Production
Gaudy sets that scream 1980s Italy in glorious decay.
Director
Federico Fellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
GINGER AND FRED starred Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni as retired variety dancers, with these ads originally intended as diegetic content within that film.
The collection represents Fellini's complicated relationship with television—he despised it yet couldn't stop watching, much like these ads that critique while reveling in commercial aesthetics.
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