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Fellinis 8.1/2 Details

1962

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Starring	Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo
Director	Federico Fellini
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Fellinis 8.1/2

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 realises 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 wife (Anouk Aimee), his lover (Sandro Milo), his ideal woman (Claudia Cardinale), and his dead parents; and his repressive Catholic guilt follows him everywhere like a haunting mist.

Starring	Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Madelene Lebeau
Director	Federico Fellini
Studio	NOUVEAUX PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 18 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Italian
Released	Production year: 1962 To Rent: DVD: 26 Mar 2001

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- The passage of time has not been kind to what many view as Fellini's masterpiece. Certainly Di Venanzo's high-key... read more on Time Out
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  I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is a bad film, but I’d certainly say its appeal would be limited to a very small audience. Those who like art ... read more »
  
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  Good excuse to eat popcorn
  
  Thanks to the review page I did a bit of swatting up on this film before watching it ( having had to watch La Dolce Vita twice) - and even with notes I still ... read more »
  
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  too many cooks spoiled the broth
  
  Movie about making movie that gets off to rather difficult start as its director wrestles with his personal life committed to health spa because of his liver ... read more »
  
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  Masterpiece... but looks so long in the tooth now..I couldnt watch it through...but there again it was of its time.. to be fair!
  
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  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. ...