Fellini's- 81/2

8 1/2 is a Italian movie directed in 1963 by Federico Fellini. It tells the story of a film maker who has hit a brick wall in his creative process and is searching for inspiration which come to him in the form of dreams. The film gives you an insight into the life of a film maker. The structure of this film is different to that of films of the time. As it is not linear and it is unclear what is reality and what is in fact a dream. This reminded me of more recent films such as Total Recall and Inception.
I did not enjoy this movie, for a few different reasons. Unlike movies such as Inception and Total recall, which I think were brilliant and clever movies, I found the 'dreams' in this film weird and sometimes unnecessary to the story line. The nonlinear nature of the film made it confusing to watch and because of this I was left bored and frustrated.
This being said it could have been to do with the fact that it was in Italian with subtitles. With movies similar to 81/2 such as inception,  you have to pay very close attention to understand the plotline. So by watching it in Italian for one I couldn't understand the tone of voice that things were being said in and two reading the subtitles gave me an extra thing to concentrate on, on-top of the plot. This does not mean that I do not enjoy foreign cinema and television. I recently watched (and really enjoyed) a french Tv series called the returned and I understood everything that was going on, which is why I think this movie is unnecessarily confusing.
I can understand that some people see this to be one of the best foreign films made at the time, but unfortunately it wasnt for me.