20-year-old Lucy Cunningham has never kissed a boy, never had a job, and never really had friends. Her best friend is her mother Claire, who has shielded her from all the bad in the world. Claire stumbles into a bizarre and wonderful festival of the films of Federico Fellini, the great Italian director. In a burst of courage, Lucy leaves her small-town home to find the filmmaker and unlock his mysterious enigma and her own.
What follows is a strange and spectacular journey through the romantic dreamscapes of Italy, as Lucy encounters not just characters from Fellini’s films, but the fantasies and nightmares that defined him. Her journey of discovery and life, counterpoints Claire’s gradual decline into death. Apart but connected, they fulfill both of their dreams as truth and fiction intertwine into the ultimate Felliniesque journey.
露西從小在母親的保護下長大,母女倆最大的休閒娛樂是一起看通俗感人的愛情電影。在某次挫敗的工作面試後,露西走進電影院,費里尼的電影正在播映著。一個她未曾感受過的世界—充滿奇想與欲望,費里尼的電影與過去她的世界是如此截然不同,她決定離開美國、前往義大利,她要找到費里尼,一定要找到...
【電影簡介】
電影《尋找費里尼》改編自美國知名配音演員南希卡特賴特(Nancy Cartwright)年輕時的尋夢故事。電影9月中在美國上映,評價不俗,紐約時報評論為「充滿熱情、魅力四射。費里尼以懷舊來提醒我們自己的『存在』,萊辛頓則用《尋找費里尼》來提醒我們費里尼的『存在』。」
全片充滿費里尼式的奇想,故事人物、場景、視覺意象也巧妙借用費里尼的經典電影如《生活的甜蜜》、《八又二分之一》及《卡比莉亞之夜》。費里尼的影迷絕對會從本片找到許多樂趣,還沒有認識費里尼的年輕朋友,也會透過本片,發掘費里尼電影的獨特性,進而自己走一趟義大利,追尋費里尼。
導演萊辛頓從小在義大利長大,對義大利有一種近乎癡迷的愛。2014年南希卡特賴特(知名卡通【辛普森家庭】霸子辛普森的配音演員)拿著劇本來找導演,希望能把自己年輕時到義大利去尋訪費里尼的故事搬上大銀幕。萊辛頓很喜歡費里尼的電影,一口答應要把這段經歷拍成電影。