Genre: Drama, Surreal, Fantasy, Satire, Showbiz, Psychodrama, Prostitution, Marriage, Infidelity, Epic, Experimental, Teenage
Plot: Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave director. Beautifully choreographed with flashbacks, dream sequences, exaggerated fantasy scenes, and magical surrealist episodes, 8 1/2 is one of the richest, most exuberant movies ever made, in the mode of Fellini's artfully abstract LA DOLCE VITA and AMARCORD.Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is at a crisis point in his life and his work; in the opening sequence, Guido, suffocating, is caught in traffic with the windows of his car locked shut. He climbs out of the sunroof and literally rises up over the highway into the clouds, seemingly free, when he realizes there's a rope tied around his ankle that is violently pulling him back to earth. Cutting from this dream to the health spa where Guido is trying to recapture his creativity and write the screenplay for his next film, his vices become clear: Guido is self-absorbed, and he's distracted by the fabulous cast of actresses, intellectuals, and eccentrics who have joined him at the spa. Additionally he struggles with Freudian complexes about his
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 | Anouk Aimée
The Sweet Life, Prêt-à-Porter, A Man and a Woman |
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 | Sandra Milo
Juliet of the Spirits, Cuore altrove, Il, Generale della Rovere, Il | Rossella Falk
Sleepless, Modesty Blaise, Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | | |
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Nino Rota
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Sweet Life |
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