Feting Fellini

Here are more details about the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume from Bloomberg via the Washington Post:

PARIS -- Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a classic. The Jeu de Paume is honoring the Italian film director with a vast exhibition, aptly named "La Grande Parade."

Processions, masquerades and clowns are leitmotifs in his movies. At age 7, Fellini ran away from boarding school to follow a traveling circus. Although the adventure soon came to an end, the circus remained a lifelong obsession.

The show at the exhibition space in the Tuileries Gardens doesn't attempt to trace Fellini's life chronologically. That's a wise decision, given his tendency to constantly re-imagine his past. Instead, the exhibits -- photographs, posters, magazines, movie clips and Fellini's own drawings -- are grouped around themes.