When she turns out to be vain and stupid, the disillusioned Guido becomes even more paralyzed by apathy. One day he meets Claudia, a young actress who is the physical embodiment of the dream woman of his fantasies. His life is further complicated by the arrival of his giddy mistress, Carla, and his embittered wife, Luisa. Apathetic and filled with doubts about the type of film he wants to make, Guido fantasizes about his dead parents, his early Catholic education, his schoolboy adventure watching an obese, grotesque prostitute dance on a beach and his subsequent humiliation in front of his parents and classmates, and his imaginary sexual prowess with a harem of the women he has known, whom, in his fantasy, he controls with a whip. Even at the spa, however, he is badgered by the producer for whom he is committed to make a lavish science fiction film, and by actors, actresses, production personnel, and a disapproving intellectual writer. Italian film director Guido Anselmi collapses from nervous exhaustion and takes refuge at a luxurious spa.
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