Given a spare lifetime and an ample supply of digestives, one could easily wade through the tomes devoted to one of the cinemas greatest practitioners and this, his most complex film. Made in 1963, it still has the power to beguile and divide.
The film won a Best Foreign Film Oscar and Fellini was nominated as Best Director, but critical opinion is far from unanimous, with some distinguished critics finding it an intolerably pretentious exercise in self-indulgence. Indeed, while critics for the last 26 years have tried to unravel its personal references, much of it is incomprehensible on first viewing - though no less enjoyable for that - and as such is one of the cinemas most powerful personal statements.
Fellini is legend and many consider this the great mans masterpiece.