Eight and a half

Film director Guido (played by Marcello Mastroianni) felt exhausted after completing a film. He came to a sanatorium to rest while starting to conceive of the next film. He was plagued by nightmares, depressed and his inspiration stalled. He asked his mistress Carla (Sandra Milo) to come to the resort to keep him company, but Carla's arrival only added to his troubles. At this time, the appearance of the energetic young girl Claudia (Claudia Cardinale) brings a bright light to Guido's depressed world. However, as Guido's wife Luisa (played by Anouk Aimée) and many people in the film industry came to the sanatorium, Guido could not bear the dual pressure of the chaos of his personal love life and the pressure of filming. His mental crisis became more severe, and dreams and hallucinations continued to invade his real life... The film won the 1964 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design (Black and White).