8½
A film director at a spa, blocked and dodging his producer, is besieged by an actress, a wife, a mistress and a crew waiting on a script he has not written. Memory, dream and rehearsal run together until he can no longer say which he is in. Creative block danced into a ring of everyone he owes.
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- continues ↑ La Dolce Vita
- influenced by ↑ Wild Strawberries
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