Guido will be standing in one room, and then walk into another and suddenly we’re in a dream or memory sequence without any sort of prompting. The way that he weaves them into the storyline happens seamlessly. Perhaps my favorite things in Fellini films are his dream sequences. He thinks of woman that he’s known and all the friends he’s made throughout his life he thinks of his sorrows and his joys, and all of this is shown in a way that only Fellini could show you. As actors, producers, and various crew members hound him for details about a movie that doesn’t yet exist, Guido flashes back to moments of his childhood in beautiful and bizarre dreams. He’s got ‘director’s block’ as he calls it.
The studio has already started to produce elaborate science fiction sets, and actors are already being cast, but Guido has no real script. The premise is that acclaimed director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni, “Divorce Italian Style”) is in between his eighth and ninth film. Like with both “La Dolce Vita” and “ Amarcord”, this film’s premise is rather simple it’s the way that Fellini executes his scenes, with so much style and pizzazz, with so much unrestrained giddiness, that it makes the film a wonder to behold.
