This movie could have been entitle Guido and Luisa find love. Guido is a burnt out director with a creative block and Luisa is his suffering wife who warns Guido that he is a a creative liar, which just drives Guido away. Instead of heeding his wife's warnings, Guido escapes into fantasy to try to find the cause of his creative block. All that does is reveal a bunch of jumbled thoughts which just confuse and frustrate him more, until he is forced to actually listen to his wife, who still loves him. The movie contains remarkable performances, most noteworthy being those of Marcelo Mastroianni as the movie director Guido and Anouk Aimee as his wife Louisa. Guido is in denial. He knows that something is wrong but avoids the truth, which is that he really has nothing profound to say. In fact, his movies are nothing more than conventional junk devoid of any truth or meaning. This realization forces Guido to have decide on whether he wants to continue his next project. For him, this is a huge and difficult decision. A lot of people are depending on Guido to make the movie, but the more they pressure him the more he tries to avoid making the decision, until he finally has the courage to listen to Luisa and do what is right and honest.
