Tutto Fellini!
Oct 22, 2009Starting today, Paris is catching Fellini fever. The Cinémathèque française, the Jeu de Paume museum, and . . .
Italy
1963
138 minutes
1.85:1
Italian
140
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 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.
| Guido Anselmi | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Bruno Agostini | Bruno Agostini |
| Carla | Sandra Milo |
| Luisa Anselmi | Anouk Aimée |
| Gloria Morin | Barbara Steele |
| The Beautiful Woman | Caterina Boratto |
| Claudia | Claudia Cardinale |
| Producer | Angelo Rizzoli |
| Cinematography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
| Screenplay | Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi |
| Music | Nino Rota |
| Director | Federico Fellini |
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