Funny, exhilarating, perplexing, and tragic, 8½ is not only the greatest film ever made about writer’s block as well as the ultimate cinematic statement on the male midlife crisis, it’s also a movie about making a movie, where the movie being made appears to be 8½. Filled with one memorable and unique scene after another, Fellini’s autobiographical surreal comedy lacks nothing except a coherent plot–something it has no use for.
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