The exhibition “Fellini, la Grande Parade” in Jeu de Paume in Paris is very much worth seeing.
After (or while) making his Casanova movie Fellini called Casanova “a fascist” and he added, I paraphrase, what else is fascism but prolonged adolescence?

One could argue that many of Fellini’s male characters are desperately trying to prolong their adolescence.

Perhaps we should say that fascism is prolonged adolescence but that not all prolonged adolescence is fascism.