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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Federico Fellini |
| Stars: |
Marcello Mastroianni |
| Actors: |
Mario Pisu |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Surreal · Satire · Showbiz · Film About Film · Women · Self Analysis · Filmmakers · Filmmaking · Actresses · Fantasy Worlds · Essential Cinema · Classic · Fantasy · Italian |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
037429135624 |
| Release Date: |
1963 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 18min |
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Languages
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| Release Language: |
English (Subtitled) |
| Original Language: |
Italian |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Criterion Collection, 2hr 18min
Release Company: Criterion Collection (December 04, 2001)
UPC: 037429135624 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 18min
Release Company: MPI Home Video (December 14, 1994) |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Federico Fellini |
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Professional Reviews
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(02/01/2009, Simon Braund): "[T]he film teems with Jungian imagery, while grappling with the alienating effects of modernity and, overall, the exasperating quest for contentment in an arbitrary and uncertain world." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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. <br> <br> 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 rec... |
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