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Re: One million films sold = Good film.

Hard to argue with personal judgements, of course, but I had the fortune to see both just a few days ago, a couple of days apart, and I would still maintain that the 8 1/2 is more perfect. Like you I simply love those tiny sub-plots, each one offering food for thoughts, and in the 8 1/2 they were joined a bit more perfectly together.

But all that minor criticism is of course at the already fantastic level - let's not forget we are comparing Fellini to Fellini, so the stakes are astronomical.

The only film by him that irritated me was the Satiricon, and it has been perhaps fifteen years, so maybe time to revisit it?

Did you like it?

Anyway, Fellini is all about poetry, he is not Dumas and not Dreiser - he is much more in the Pushkin vain. And if someone doesn't appreciate poetry then Fellini might not resonate.




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