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. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life.
