FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
8½
No freely reusable poster is available for this title.
Scores
- IMDb8.0/10as of 2026-03-09
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer97%as of 2026-01-15
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.4/10as of 2021-10-10
- Metacritic93/100as of 2026-01-15
What it is
8½ is a 1963 Italian avant-garde comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi who suffers from writer's block as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life.
At a glance
- Genres
- Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
- Original language
- Italian
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