Fellini's 8 1/2 (DVD, 2001)

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Fellini's 8 1/2. Marcello Mastroianni. Federico Fellini directs this Italian surrealist drama starring Marcello Mastroianni as a character based on the director. Guido Anselmi (Mastroianni) is a successful film director who is undertaking his most ambitious project yet.

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A film which takes its name from the number of films made by Fellini and tells the story of a director on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

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eBay Product ID (ePID)30050241

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ActorRossella Falk, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, Anouk Aimee, Madelene Lebeau, Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Steele
Film/TV TitleFellini's 8 1/2
DirectorFederico Fellini
LanguageItalian
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time138 Mins
FormatDVD
Release Year2001
FeaturesFilm Gallery\Fellini Filmography, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureItaly
Additional InformationFederico 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.<BR>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.
AwardsBest Foreign Film 1964 -
Movie/TV TitleFellini's 8 1/2

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  • Right at the top of film directors

    any film by Fellini is worthwhile watching.the man is a genius.his ability to surprise and amaze you with the next scene is unsurpassed.my other hero in film directors is Orson Welles.these two are musts for film students and the general public./that they are overlooked by critics and the general public doesnt take away their place in film history as being right at the very top.rightly so in my humble opinion

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  • Great ..wonderfull

    It is the vision of Fellini of what his thoughts and his eyes have captured of the surrounding events, behavior and people ..and of himself among it all. Vision of life . It is a wonderfull school of life .

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  • Very good film

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  • Classic film

    Not seen but looking forward to watching

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  • stunning

    excellent

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