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Mood:
- CleverContemplativeOffbeatStylizedCaptivating
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Plot:
- IntrospectionPsychologicalShowbizFilmmakingArtists and ShowbizLifestyleLove and RomanceMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignPostmodernism
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- Italy
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- Award WinnerClassicCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpieceOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Style:
- Ensemble CastFilm in FilmNonlinearSurrealTalky
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Based on:
- Biography
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Attitudes:
- SeriousSemi FantasticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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8 1/2, 1963
Italian, English, French, German
Italy, France
Profile of 8 1/2
8 1/2 can be described as clever, contemplative, and offbeat. The plot revolves around filmmaking, showbiz, and introspection. The main genres are drama and foreign. In terms of style, 8 1/2 is postmodernist, is a film in a film, and is nonlinear. In approach, it is serious. The storytelling is slow paced. 8 1/2 is located in Italy. It takes place in the 1960s. Visually, it is black and white. 8 1/2 is drawn from a biography. The movie has received attention for being a classic, an Oscar winner, and a masterpiece.
Summary of 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, 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.
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 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 eccentrics who have joined him at the spa. Additionally he struggles with Freudian complexes about his wife (Anouk Aimֳ©e), 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.
Details
| Language: | Italian, English, French, German |
| Country: | Italy, France |
| Release date: | 25 June 1963 |
| Runtime: | 138 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Guido Anselmi
as Claudia
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