Once again, they perform their version of Ginger Rogers’ and Fred Astaire’s tap dance routine. & 29.1.) Amelia (Giulietta Masina), an aging singer and her former partner Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) are reunited after 30 years for a Christmas TV special. GINGER E FRED (Ginger and Fred, I/F/FRG 1986, 23. Mastroianni became world famous with his role as Fellini’s alter ego (“It is an autobiography. “La Dolce Vita” soon became a synonym for the high life outside of Italy too, and the word “paparazzo”, which in the film is the name of a news photographer, entered several languages. Conservative MPs in Rome called for it to be banned and the Vatican’s newspaper warned Catholics against going to see it.

The film caused a sensation and a scandal. Told as a series of episodes, the events - his fiancee’s overdose, an encounter with an American film star (Anita Ekberg), a clearly unreal miracle, a night with millionaire’s daughter Maddalena (Anouk Aimée), his father’s visit, jet-set parties, a friend’s suicide - all testify to an eventful, yet ultimately lonely, life as part of Rome’s high society.

& 31.1.) depicts seven days and seven nights in the life of the reporter Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), who earns his money working for the tabloid press but fancies himself as a serious writer. He was the prototype of that generation of 40-year-olds, in all their weakness and lack of orientation - a generation of a kind of person that is no longer useful today because today we need people who know exactly what they want.” “ OTTO E MEZZO was a kind of psychoanalysis session, I could almost call it auto-psychoanalysis because Guido was the portrait of a man of my generation - a sensitive, intelligent man, a very characteristic anti-hero type. He retreats to a steam bath, where he contemplates his suppressed complexes and his childhood dreams and reflects upon the absurdities of the film industry, his relationship with art and with the female sex, finally about the meaning of life.

It is about director named Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), who wants to make a film but does not know what about. Before it, he had made 7 1/2 films and this one marked both a turning point in his oeuvre and its pinnacle.

OTTO E MEZZO (8½, I/F 1963, 19.1., Introduction: Gerhard Midding & 26.1.) Fellini’s masterpiece is a film about filmmaking and producing images.

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