BRATTLEBORO — Foreign Film Fridays (formerly French Film Fridays) at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, 139 Main St., pops up again Friday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m., with Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 .
Starring Marcello Mastroianni as a film director whose talents flounder in his obsessive pursuit of the “ideal woman,” 8 1/2 is a brilliant mixture of comedy and drama, surrealism and realism. According to a news release, “8 1/2 brings to life the ways the protagonist's egocentrism and machismo clash with reality and undermine his creative flow.”
In stark black and white, 8 1/2 evokes another era. Released in 1963 at the height of the New Wave movement, the film continues to fascinate audiences.