MARCELLO MASTROIANNI: THE IMAGE OF A MISUNDERSTANDING

The glorious 60s opened with Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, featuring a new star, a languid pretty boy: Marcello Mastroianni. A playboy with cherubic eyes, a sensitive macho with an air of not being one, Marcello seemed to fly over his roles as he did his life. Neither disenchanted nor bitter, he simply seemed to say when he appeared in town and on the screen that life is not so serious – or else was too much so – not to have fun. What character is hidden behind the docile and indolent actor? Who is the man who has never stopped fighting, in vain, against the image of a Latin-lover that the whole world has stuck on his forehead? Who is hiding under the make-up and the game of the actor Marcello Mastroianni? Is he really what he claims to be?