On the occasion of the centenary of Marcello Mastroianni's birth, Giunti Odeon is dedicating a long homage, ‘Marcello! 100’ (throughout 2024), to one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, with a selection of some of the most famous films he played in, all in restored version and with English subtitles. After La dolce vita we continue with another of Federico Fellini's masterpieces, Otto e mezzo (1963).

In existential and creative crisis, grappling with a film to make, a director makes a sort of general mobilisation of emotions, affections, memories, dreams, complexes, lies. ‘A mixture between a ramshackle psychoanalytical session and a messy examination of conscience in a limbo-like atmosphere’ (F. Fellini). ‘The masturbation of a genius’ (D. Buzzati). ‘An advanced stage in the history of the novelistic form’ (A. Arbasino). ‘A three-stage abyss construction’ (C. Metz). A Ben Hur of avant-garde cinema. An attempt at a self-portrait in fantastic form. An author's logbook. A report on an existential traffic jam. A film about the confusion and disorder of life. One of the greatest contributions to that renewal of expressive modes and the break with traditional dramaturgy that took place in cinema between the 1950s and 1960s, a renewal that Fellini had already begun with La dolce vita.