Fellini’s 8½ – 2008 RR

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

Printers Proof: Rolled as Issued 

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Size: 17 x 13 inches (43 x 32.5 cm)

Printers' proof for the 2008 BFI re-release of ‘8½’ obtained directly from Mike Leedham of 2D Design Ltd, who were responsible for the re-imagining of the poster.

8½ is a 1963 avant-garde comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centres on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), 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. The film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo.

If La Dolce Vita tells a story of failure, 8½ describes the consequences of that failure for Fellini - a creative crisis that is disabling a famous film director very close to Fellini himself. But through the crisis - the worst of his life - Fellini/Guido discovers a way forward. He will make a film about his crisis, and in doing so, the crisis will be resolved. 8½ is a two-way mirror; literally a film about itself. And it is deeply, monumentally beautiful, and here the beauty of the film becomes the subject of the film. It is not a film about some themes that also happens to be beautiful. It is a film about beauty.

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”

Tags: 2000s 1960s Italian British Comedy Drama Miscellanea Printers Proof