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He was a strong believer in cinema that came from life rather than life that comes from cinema.

Fellini would go through life and encounter something that triggers his fantasy and he “ characters and situations that seem to organize themselves” (Bachmann, 3). Fellini himself lived in his own world inside his head and was constantly creating new ideas based on his own personal experiences. The concept of perceiving reality and dreams as one experience is certainly not a new idea for Fellini and his films. The idea of blending reality and dreams into one experience is a theme that can be traced through Federico Fellini’s work.

In Fellini’s later phase his style really came out in his films such as 8 ½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), and Casanova (1976).

Fellini was a perfectionist and he knew what he wanted from his actors and during his career he coined a term called “felliniesque” which is a style of filmmaking that perceives dreams and reality as one experience. During this later phase he developed a style in which many themes could be found from the character’s search for love, happiness and meaning, to being intensely personal, to being episodic and picaresque. Fellini then began to transition into a different style of filmmaking, a style that would put him on the map for a very long time. In his six year neorealist phase lasting “from 1950 to 1956” he directed great movies like La strada (1954) and I vitelloni (1953) (Kauffmann, 28). His neorealist phase was influenced by Roberto Rossellini, who Fellini worked with writing films in the late 1940s. Federico Fellini followed in this Neorealism trend and focused his first films on post WWII Italy, especially the poor and the struggles they had to deal with in that time period. Italian Neorealism was based on the issues Italians faced after the war and was known for the use of nonprofessional actors. A Look Inside the Films of Federico Felliniĭuring the late 1940s and the 1950s in Italy, it was all about Neorealism, which was a style of filmmaking Italian directors developed after World War II.