Alberto Moravia claimed that this film's protagonist was the Leopold Bloom of his nation.
Alberto Moravia claimed that this film's protagonist was the Leopold Bloom of his nation. The main character has liver trouble, and in one scene he and his friends go near the ocean to watch the prostitute Saraghina dance before he is punished by the priests in his school. Both the protagonist's mistress, played by Sandra Milo, and his wife are in the spa town where he is staying, and he has plans to film a sci-fi epic. In one scene, the protagonist imagines a harem of all the women he has desired, and it opens with a scene where Guido Anselmi asphyxiates in a car, and is then hanging in the sky on a rope. FTP, name this Federico Fellini film, named after the number of films he had made before.
Alberto Moravia claimed that this film's protagonist was the Leopold Bloom of his nation.
{8 1/2} [“Eight and a half” or “Otto e mezzo”]