Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's avant-garde classic, winner of Best Foreign Feature at the 1964 Academy Awards, following a film director...
Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's avant-garde classic, winner of Best Foreign Feature at the 1964 Academy Awards, following a film director (Marcello Mastroianni) both about to make his next picture and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Using film as a means to explore his own fantastical memories, 8½ is often revered as Fellini's finest work.
"We join him at a health farm where mud baths, holy water, and bathing in springs have been recommended for his possible salvation. Along for the ride is the mistress who he's already bored with, and a whole array of memories that play before us in a slideshow interrupted by visitors desperate for guidance on his forthcoming film. This is a film about film-making and a stricken soul trying to find solutions in a visceral form." (BBC)
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97 %60 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
92 %45,253 reviewsAudience score rating
"Here is the author-director picture par excellence, an exciting, stimulating, monumental creation."
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Variety
Variety"Fellini pulls a multitude of rabbits out of the showman's hat."
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Time Out
Time Out"A movie endowed with the challenge of a fascinating intellectual game."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Probably the most potent movie about film-making, within which fantasy and reality are mixed without obfuscation."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"The best film ever made about filmmaking."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"A sprawling anything-goes portrait of the artist and the creative process in crisis."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"The effect is sometimes confusing - but always beautiful."
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BBC
BBC8½ | Details
Award winner- Best Foreign Film and Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) at the 1964 Academy Awards
- Runtime
- 138
- Genre
- Drama, Fantasy
- Country of origin
- Italy, France
