8 1/2 written and directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Rosella Falk and Barbara Steele.
Guido Anselmi (Mastroianni) had huge success with a previous film and is now desperately grasping at ideas to create a new cohesive vision. Anselmi wants to write and shoot an honest picture but is at a crossroads. His creative juices are not flowing and he is uninspired. Guido does not really want to work on a new project and he feels pressure from the press, producers and previous actors to make another successful film. Guido checks himself into a spa, hoping this will help relax him, but ends up feeling suffocated as all of the people he has been trying to avoid are at the spa. Guido invites his wife to join him, hoping she will help inspire him, but things go horribly wrong when Guido's wife comes in contact with his mistress. This causes to Guido to re-evaluate his entire life, especially his view of women, and his film becomes autobiographical. This film combines one man's realities, fantasies and inner turmoil and how these translate into all humankind relating to one another and coexisting in the world.
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