Becoming Anita Ekberg

Becoming Anita Ekberg

2014 · 18 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary

BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the careful cultivation of her image in various movies, both in Hollywood, by Frank Tashlin, and in Europe, by Federico Fellini. It's an exploration of the texts and subtexts of commercial films and the subterranean and complicated ways that they affect us and can be read.

Directed by Mark Rappaport

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