His production crew relocates to the spa to help him get started on this next idea. Meanwhile, his mistress arrives from Rome to see how he’s doing, but he sets up her in another hotel and then proceeds to do everything he can to avoid her. The Ideal Woman is a major character in these hallucinations and he interprets her as the key to finding the perfect subject to film next. What he hears is not good: the ideas are vapid, confusing and ultimately far too weak to be worth filming.ĭuring his stay, Guido is constantly having visions.
While taking time off, Guido employs a popular critic, Carini Daumier, to look over the ideas he is mulling over for the subject of his next film.
Rehab and recovery will take place at a sumptuous, expensive and exclusive spa. Guido Anselmi is an Italian filmmaker whose success both in his career and in his love life has brought him to the point of utter exhaustion, even physical collapse.
