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Felliniesque is an auctorial descriptive denoting a fantastical and surreal combination of memory, dreams, fantasy and desire. Fellini's films are deeply personal visions of society, often portraying people at their most bizarre. The term "Felliniesque" is used to describe any scene in which a hallucinatory image invades an otherwise ordinary situation.

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  • 1999, Laura Kightlinger, Quick Shots of False Hope: A Rejection Collection
    I think she was expecting applause instead of the ugly Felliniesque stares.
  • 2001, Bernard A. Cook, Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia
    "Felliniesque" has come to mean a certain Italian sophistication yet earthiness, a fascination with the bizarre yet a love of simplicity all wrapped in a flamboyant Mediterranean approach to life and art.
    These films also contain magic moments that transcended realism, and they introduced the world to a certain flamboyant lyricism we now label Felliniesque.
  • 2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy
    We stop walking a second and look around at the spectacle before us. There's something Felliniesque about a department store cosmetics section. You stand here on a Saturday morning, dressed in the standard mall-casual suburban wardrobe, gazing at a chamber glittering with chandeliers, populated by saleswomen wearing makeup and hair dramatic enough for opening night at La Scala.




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