My second Fellini film is much more surreal and strange than the first, but it is also oddly compelling as well.  The film is about a filmmaker who just doesn't know how to make his 9th film, and as he juggles his workers, his actors, and the women in his life, he often has to retreat to fantasy and dreams to keep his sanity.  Often times, I found it hard pressed to know whether or not what I was seeing was real.  Charlie Kaufman must have loved Federico Fellini, because when a director doesn't know what to make his movie about (Fellini) decides to make a movie about a director not knowing what to make his next movie about (8 1/2)...it is mind-bending.  Fun, and I had to sleep on it to really appreciate it...but Fellini was quite a unique filmmaker.