For the average viewer, it may seem too personal a situation and one too special in treatment despite its universality. What is real and what is fantasy? What is memory and what is actuality? These are the questions the situation poses, along with the life problems that are peculiar to the creative artist and in some ways applicable to man in general.įellini keeps a grasp on his difficult form, creating some penetrating, witty, tragic moments. The style, of necessity, is realistic, impressionistic and surrealistic, with flashbacks, confusion of time sequences and of personality. As he tries to prepare a new film, he finds his current life and his whole past life crowding in to distract and disturb him. The story concerns an Italian movie director who finds himself at a sterile period artistically. It sums up, numerically, the number of films Fellini has made, including segments. 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi': THR's 1983 Reviewįellini shares writing credits on 8½ with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi, but it is a personal story he is telling, as indicated by the title.
