The fantasy women attack Guido with harsh truths about himself and his sex life. Luisa and Rosella call him on the lie, and Guido slips into a fantasy world where he lords over a harem of women from his life, but a rejected showgirl starts a rebellion. Carla surprises Guido, Luisa, and Rosella outside the hotel, and Guido claims that he and Carla ended their affair years earlier. Guido confesses to his wife's best friend Rosella that he wanted to make a film that was pure and honest, but he is struggling with something honest to say. They dance, but Guido abandons her for his production crew.
Guido invites his estranged wife Luisa and her friends to join him. Guido admits to a Cardinal that he is not happy. The film production crew relocates to Guido's hotel in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to work on the film. His mistress Carla comes to visit him, but Guido puts her in a separate hotel. Guido has recurring visions of an Ideal Woman, which he sees as key to his story. While attempting to recover from his anxieties at a luxurious spa, Guido hires a well-known critic to review his ideas for his film, but the critic blasts them. Stalled on his new science fiction film that includes thinly veiled autobiographical references, he has lost interest amidst artistic and marital difficulties. Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director, is suffering from " director's block". It is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. The film was also included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 19". The film ranked 7th in BBC's 2018 list of The 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films voted by 209 film critics from 43 countries around the world.
It is listed on the Vatican's compilation of the 45 best films made before 1995, the 100th anniversary of cinema. It was ranked 10th on the British Film Institute's The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012 critics' poll and 4th by directors. It is acknowledged as an avant-garde film and a highly influential classic. The film is shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a soundtrack by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi.Ĩ + 1⁄ 2 was critically acclaimed and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design (black-and-white). Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. The metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi, played by Marcello Mastroianni, a famous Italian film director who suffers from stifled creativity as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film.
8 + 1⁄ 2 (Italian title: Otto e mezzo, pronounced ) is an Italian 1963 surrealist comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini.
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