The Dallas International Film Festival's tribute to Italian cinema kicks off with perhaps the greatest Italian movie ever, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Fellini’s film starred Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a renowned director struggling to reconcile his artistic and personal demons who was modeled on Fellini himself. Though Guido is supposed to make a post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, his artistic uncertainty and personal doubts set off a visually stunning interplay of memories, dreams, and fantasies of the women in his life.