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8 ½ (1963)

The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present

8 ½

Federico Fellini | Italy | 1963 | M
Film

When

Wed 21 May 2025

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Lauded by Roger Ebert as “the best film ever made about filmmaking”, and spawning countless imitators from Woody Allen to Bob Fosse, this playful, deceptively autobiographical Oscar-winning reverie on the mysteries of the artistic process is one of the landmark works of European art cinema.

Hot on the heels of their worldwide success with La dolce vita, Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni (Guido) once again teamed up to explore the porous boundaries between life, art and dreamlike imagination in this exhilarating circus-like comedy memorably scored by Nino Rota. Also starring Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée and Steele as three of the women in Guido’s life.

4K DCP courtesy of Cinecittà Luce.

Format: 4K DCP
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Source: Cinecitta
Courtesy: Umbrella
Runtime: 138 mins

Event duration

138 mins

Rating

M

Low level coarse language

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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