8½ A.K.A. Otto e mezzo (1963)

A French Italian drama directed by Frederico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Caredinale and Anouk Aimée.
A director is trying to start making a film, but has trouble making decisions.
This is a very famous film, but I did not like it. The plot seemed extremely desultory and did not serve well to develop the characters. The only character who stood out to me was the director (in the movie). I'm alright with watching black and white films with subtitles sometimes, but the amount of reading in this was too much. There were about as many subtitles as Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017). This culminated at the climax, when everyone is asking the director what they should do as he shows up to begin filming. I've been in his place before and it is not fun. I had written a simple script for a scriptwriting class and the professor not only insisted the whole class go with, but he brought a superfluous camera operator who was not even in the class. That was when it turned out that our audio guys went through the whole shoot without recording anything. There was some creative camera placement and blocking in this, but not enough to merit the fame it holds. I rate it bad because the whole film was people yammering and chattering while I was speed reading subtitles. You probably should not watch it.