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81⁄2 (Italian title: Otto e mezzo, pronounced [ˈɔtto e mˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini.
May 28, 2000 · "8 1/2" is the best film ever made about filmmaking. It is told from the director's point of view, and its hero, Guido ( Marcello Mastroianni ), is clearly intended to represent Fellini.
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Director. Federico Fellini. Writers. Federico Fellini. Ennio Flaiano. Tullio Pinelli. Stars. Marcello Mastroianni. Anouk Aimée. Claudia Cardinale. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist. Added by 203K users.
Plot Overview. Guido Anselmi, a forty-three-year-old film director, visits a fashionable health spa, seeking treatment for his liver trouble. A number of people from the film industry, however, have followed him there in preparation for the production of his next film.
8 1/2 (English Subtitled) Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8½ turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.
8 1/2 is a witty self-reference to Fellini's own career; the film being technically his eighth-and-a-half after seven features and two short segments for compilation films.
Location scenes filmed in Rome, Filacciano, and Ostia, Italy. Opened in Rome in February 1963 as 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo); running time: 140 min. Prerelease running time: 188 min. Also known as Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Actress Yvonne Casadei is also known as Jacqueline Bonbon.
May 7, 1993 · This film gives us the rocket set, a tower to nowhere, and ends at dusk with a sad circus parade, the clowns leading all of the people in Guido's life around and around in circles. Thirty years after Fellini made "8 1/2," films like this have grown rare.
Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Cory Woodroof For the Win (USA Today) Your favorite surrealistic movie owes much to 8 1/2, a formally daring study into the creation of art and how our worlds shape...
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Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning 8½ is the Italian maestro's iconic story of a director's creative block, and the ultimate movie about movies.
