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8½
Why this pick
Fellini again turns Roman spectacle into a fluid, episodic inner journey, pairing celebrity-world excess with melancholy, irony, and an intoxicating black-and-white dream logic.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Based on the most common interpretation of the storyline, the film can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue (see also #Seven principal episodes). If the evenings of each episode were joined with the morning of the respective preceding episode together as a day, they would form seven consecutive days, which may not necessarily be the case.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Rubini
Anita Ekberg
Sylvia
Anouk Aiméé
Maddalena
Yvonne Furneaux
Emma
Lex Barker
Robert
Magali Noël
Fanny
Alain Cuny
Steiner
Nadia Gray
Nadia