After a month long search I found 8 1/2 neatly placed in Amit Bhaiya's DVD closet( which I must add that it's the best collection I have seen yet, & all of them are going to be stolen by me ). He was the person responsible for arousing curiousity within me for the Film by placing it third in his top twenty list. Ta to him.
8 1/2 was a sheer delight to watch. A magic created by Fellini. Although he never wanted the film to be made as we all see it today. Originally, the script was based upon a writer but Fellini ended up making the film on a movie director. This was nothing other than his autobiographical account in which the director gets confused about the events revolving around him, leading him to fantasies, the problems of his married life, getting the movie underway proves challenging indeed,. Guido (lead character playing the director) is left clueless.The irony is this that there wasnt any film script for 8 1/2. The actors were given their lines each day morning, often verbally. Even Fellini wasnt sure about what he was going to make. This, he also admitted to his producer.All in all, the film started a trend which was to followed & copied by many.
A must watch film. Magical, indeed, none other by Federico Fellini.
1 comment:
Agreed, magic it is. With this one film, its as if the sorcerer pulled out a trick out of thin air with one quick swish of his directorial wand.
You can actually experience the almost phantasmagoria quality of the film thoroughout, thinking what is it that he actually wants you to take with you, bits or all, and still walk away with an overwhelming emptiness which is most fulfilling.
Burst my bubble.
Tally ho!
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