Otto e mezzo

OTTO E MEZZO tells the story of filmmaker Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), who is the midst of a creative crisis, remembering his repressed complexes and lost childhood dreams as well as reflecting on his relationship to art, woman and ultimately the meaning of life. Federico Fellini cast Claudia Cardinale as his muse, as the source of his inspiration. And he made sure that after she had been dubbed for many years, her own dark, rough voice could finally be heard in the film. “For Fellini, Claudia Cardinale was the ideal woman, a director’s gossamer of dreams who is sure that this girl could be the solution for everything. And when she appears for the first time, floating through the gardens of a health resort barefoot in a white nurse’s outfits, that does indeed seem possible.” (Michael Althen) (hjf)