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Eight And A Half (1962)



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3 out of 10 Sigh... couldn't follow it...
Colm from Dublin, 29 Feb 2008
I'm sure this is a masterpiece on some level, but bugger me if I couldn't make hide nor hair of it... I really liked 'Dolce Vita', which is easy to follow, but I found this utterly non-sensical. It's the cinematic equivalent of watching a Dali painting. After taking some really strong hallucinogens. It probably didn't help that I was really tired when watching it, and should have been zoning out on something like 'Good Luck Chuck', so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt points wise.
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3.5 out of 10 Interesting
Gary from Cork, 13 Oct 2009
A classic it was billed as and it certainly was interesting. Some very good performances
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3.5 out of 10 Eight and a half
Brian from Dublin, 22 Aug 2007
Slow, disjointed and a little confusing. But looks very nice. The end saves it
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4 out of 10 Eight and a half
Una from Kildare, 08 Jan 2012
Need to be a fellini fan
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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...

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