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Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moment's peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of film making.... (Full plot summary below)

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Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moment's peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of film making.

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IndieWire - 10/10 by Max O'ConnellOne of the best films ever made about filmmaking, it’s simultaneously critical of its director’s self-importance and childishness and celebratory of the possibilities of the medium.
The Hollywood Reporter - 10/10 by James PowersA grim fable of modern man, a true art picture.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThe best film ever made about filmmaking.
Chicago Tribune - 10/10 by Johanna SteinmetzFellini weaves the director’s memories and fantasies into a brilliant blend as Guido comes to realize that lives, like movies, need direction.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Desson ThomsonIf 8½ seems stuck in the early 1960s, it's only superficially so. Somehow, the movie is more than the dated crisis of a naval-contemplating artist. It's about the inability in all of us to make sense of our lives, put it all together and come up with something meaningful.
Austin Chronicle - 9/10 by Nick BarbaroWith 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.
The New Republic - 9/10 by Stanley KauffmannI don't think that 8 1/2 "says" very much, but it is breathtaking to watch. One doesn't come away from it as from, say, the best Bergman or Renoir-with a continuing, immanent experience; one has to think back to it and remember the effect. But that is easy, for the experience is unforgettable.
Chicago Reader - 9/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumIt's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did—certainly more fun than anything he made after it.
The New Yorker - 9/10 by Pauline KaelThe film succeeds, and for many reasons: because of Fellini's wonderfully self-deprecating humor — the way he mocks the idea of the director as a genius, the artist as romantic hero; because of his honesty in expressing both his dreams of glory and his self-hatred, anxiety, and dread; and because visually it’s stunning and exhilarating.
Orlando Sentinel - 8/10 by Crosby Day8½ works best as a self-deprecating comedy, a fact revealed most forcefully in the folly of film production on display.

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