Despite its nauseating refrain of “Be Italian,” there’s not an Italian actor among the main cast of Nine. Rob Marshall’s song-and-dance take on Fellini’s 8½ is a let’s-play-dressup front–a fictitious reduction of another director’s autobiographical classic. Marshall’s numbers have neither flash nor scope. They enter the movie as psychological explorations of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), […]
