8½

5.00
    8½
    1963

    Synopsis

    Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

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    Cast

    • Marcello MastroianniGuido Anselmi
    • Anouk AiméeLuisa Anselmi
    • Sandra MiloCarla
    • Claudia CardinaleClaudia
    • Rossella FalkRossella
    • Barbara SteeleGloria Morin
    • Madeleine LebeauMadeleine, the French Actress
    • Caterina BorattoMysterious Lady
    • Eddra GaleLa Saraghina
    • Guido AlbertiPace, the Producer

    Recommandations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The best film ever made about filmmaking.
    • 100

      The Guardian

      It exerts an irresistible pull.
    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A grim fable of modern man, a true art picture.
    • 90

      Chicago Reader

      It's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did—certainly more fun than anything he made after it.
    • 90

      Variety

      With 8 1/2 Federico Fellini tops even his trendsetting La Dolce Vita in artistry. Here is the author-director picture par excellence, an exciting, stimulating, monumental creation.
    • 90

      The New Republic

      I don't think that 8 1/2 "says" very much, but it is breathtaking to watch. One doesn't come away from it as from, say, the best Bergman or Renoir-with a continuing, immanent experience; one has to think back to it and remember the effect. But that is easy, for the experience is unforgettable.
    • 88

      Washington Post

      If 8½ seems stuck in the early 1960s, it's only superficially so. Somehow, the movie is more than the dated crisis of a naval-contemplating artist. It's about the inability in all of us to make sense of our lives, put it all together and come up with something meaningful.
    • 80

      BBC

      Dreams of the future merge with memories of the past as a fascinating array of imagery is conjured to the screen. The effect is sometimes confusing - but always beautiful - and eventually intertwines to a singular life-confirming realisation that cuts through the madness and embraces it.

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