![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the most personal film ever from a director famed for work drawn deeply from his own life, it stars the great Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a movie-maker whose latest film project is collapsing all around him. It's self-referential for sure - it's a film about a film made by a film-maker having a crisis of confidence about what it was he does for a living after all - but never lazy or indulgent just for the sake of it. It's a film about the craft of film-making itself, a study into the dark hole of writer's block and one of the most affecting slices of pure cinema ever released.Ī visually stunning stream of consciousness that glides stylishly through flashbacks and dream sequences with an almost carnivalesque grace, it's got a sparkling surface shimmer like nothing else before or since, but also enough depth to drag it way past the regular accusations of self-indulgence that it's endured down the years. LIKE all great art there are many sides to Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8½. ![]()
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