“Federico Fellini manages to accomplish with film what mostly abstract painters do – namely, to communicate emotion without ever saying or showing anything in a direct manner, without ever explaining anything, just by a sort of sheer magic.”
—David Lynch

Fellini’s surreal comedy portrait of a famous, suave director (Marcello Mastroianni) — whose creative touch eludes him as he attempts to finish a film — created a sensation and spawned a movie genre of its own.