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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, this surreal motion picture tells of a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis. Guido Anselmi (Marcel... Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, this surreal motion picture tells of a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is floating in a midpoint with 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 eclectics 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 like a haunting mist. 8 1/2 is beautifully choreographed with flashbacks, dream sequences, exaggerated fantasy scenes, and magical surrealist episodes, making it one of the richest, most exuberant movies ever made, in the mode of Fellini's artfully abstract LA DOLCE VITA and AMARCORD.
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| Criterion Collection Federico Fellini`s Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini`s films, this surreal motion picture follows a 43-year-old film director who is having a mi... |
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