8½

Name: 8½
Genre: Drama
Released: June 24, 1963
Duration: 138 min
Rating: 93
Cast: Anouk Aimée, Barbara Steele, Caterina Boratto, Claudia Cardinale, Eddra Gale

1963

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Universal acclaim based on 23 Critic Reviews

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Cineriz | Release Date: June 24, 1963 | Not Rated

Starring: Anouk Aimée, Barbara Steele, Caterina Boratto, Claudia Cardinale, Eddra Gale, Guido Alberti, Madeleine Lebeau, Marcello Mastroianni, Rossella Falk, Sandra Milo

Summary: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 138 min

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100

Roger Ebert

The best film ever made about filmmaking. Read full review

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The Guardian Derek Malcolm

8 1/2 is probably the most potent movie about film-making, within which fantasy and reality are mixed without obfuscation, and there's a tough argument that belies Fellini's usual felicitous flaccidity. Read full review

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James Powers

A grim fable of modern man, a true art picture. Read full review

Pauline Kael

It's a deluxe glorification of creative crisis, visually arresting (the dark and light contrasts are extraordinary, magical) but in some essential way conventional-minded.

Staff (Not Credited)

With 8 1/2 Federico Fellini tops even his trendsetting La Dolce Vita in artistry. Here is the author-director picture par excellence, an exciting, stimulating, monumental creation. Read full review

Nick Barbaro

With 8 1/2, Fellini cast aside all vestiges of the naturalism that informed his early work. From here, he stepped off into the dazzling fantasyland of Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, and Roma, but for many, this remains the quintessential Federico. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

8½ works best as a self-deprecating comedy, a fact revealed most forcefully in the folly of film production on display. Read full review

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federicofellini

Jan 7, 2021

Semplicemente il miglior film che abbia mai visto: onirico, allegorico ed estremamente profondo.

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

santasa

Nov 4, 2021

It's spectacular. It was creative impulse, resulting in culture and art's main reference point.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

AJ_13

Sep 12, 2022

THE GOOD: Marcello Mastroianni delivers a titanic performance. Through unreal visuals, editing and score, Fellini blends dreams and reality creating numerous unforgettable scenes.

THE BAD: Definitely not for everyone. The constant sense of overwhelness may distance the viewer from the story.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

gracjanski

May 1, 2021

extremely boring movie with a surrealistic atmosphere and weird characters. I couldnt find any humour also. After 30 minutes I couldnt bear it anymore and watched something different.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

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