Synopsis
"As you know Federico loves monumental and abundant
women, but just because I'm so small and thin I could slip through the live sculptures, hiding as Gelsomina, Cabiria, Julietta, Ginger, enjoying my revenge on him "- In these words Giulietta Massina, Fellini's wife and lover, describes her relationship with Federico Fellini, the man who shaped her as his first female icon - a clown and a little Roman prostitute - in the collection of the giant and colorful women which fill his films.
Those who followed: Anita Ekberg, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, Magali Noel, Arlette Savuage, Edra Gal ("La Saraghina"), Maria Antonietta Belucci ("La Tabaccaia"), Sandy Allan ("The Giant"), Berenice Staggers ("The Feminist"), Marisa Tomari and others are shaping a magic world of women who are a wild work of oriental fantasy, unlike anything to be found in the real world, not also in art, but only in the dreams and films of the Italian painter and director Federico Fellini.
In "A Woman with Three Breasts" Gabriel Bensimhon presents the colorful and mythical women Fellini invented over fifty years of work and which he placed in the center of his films like "La Strada", "La Dolce Vita",
"8 1/2", "Amarcord", "The City of Women", "Casanova", "The Voice of the Moon".
"A woman with three breasts" is written in an intimate and personal style by a poet who is also a filmmaker and whose love to Fellini makes this book a book of poetry.
The book was translated from English by Prof. Lucio Izzo.
In this Italian version there is an appendix with some book reviews and also four new chapters in English.