Fellini: I'm a Born Liar expertly judged and beautifully made document. Fellini's eloquent descriptions of his own development and working processes reveal extraordinary insight, not only into film-making, but into art and artists across all disciplinary boundaries". S. F. Said of "The Telegraph" (London) wrote: "For sheer entertainment value, "Fellini: I'm A Born Liar" is as good as any fiction. The lengthy, probing interview in which Fellini is sometimes contradictory, sometimes self-deceiving, is always entertaining. This is neatly played off against the recollections of collaborators, including Terence Stamp and Donald Sutherland, which are alternately affectionate and appalled." In France, it was acclaimed in major magazines
Maddalena Fellini dialectal play, "Stal mami" by Liliano Faenza, which got her unexpected attention and critical praises. In 1990 she made her film debut in the Marco Tullio Giordana's segment of the anthology film "Especially on Sunday", getting critical acclaim for her role of a lonely mother spying on the intimate moments of her son and his wife. Fellini was also an occasional writer, being the author of a humorous autobiography ("Storie di una casalinga straripata", 1992) and of a cooking book filled with autobiographical anecdotes ("A tavola con Federico Fellini", 2003). In 1995, she created an association with the aim to