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La dolce vita

Italy, France

1960

174 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
Italian, English, French, German
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DIR Federico Fellini

EXEC Franco Magli

PROD Giuseppe Amato, Angelo Rizzoli

SCR Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi, Pier Paolo Pasolini

DP Otello Martelli

CAST Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Walter Santesso, Riccardo Garrone, Ida Galli, Lex Barker, Valeria Ciangottini, Laura Betti, Nico

ED Leo Cattozzo

PROD DES Piero Gherardi

MUSIC Nino Rota

SOUND Oscar Di Santo, Agostino Moretti

Cannes (In Competition): Palme d'Or, Cannes, Berlinale (Retrospective), San Francisco (World Cinema), São Paulo (Special Presentations)

Synopsis

Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer. –IMDb

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was born in 1920 to a provincial middle-class family in Rimini, a small town on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The lack of available options to young men in provincial towns is an important theme in some of his films, most notably I Vitelloni and Amarcord. In fact, Orson Welles once described Fellini as “a small-town boy who’s never really come to Rome. He’s still dreaming about it. And we should all be grateful for those dreams.” He initially arrived in Rome as a law student but his career as a satirical cartoonist and gag writer was already well established by then. His childhood fascination with the circus and the Grand Guignol also governed his cinephilia in these early years. His favourite films were American comedies by Chaplin, Keaton, Harry Langdon and the Marx Brothers. It was only after he came into contact with the circle of Ettore Scola, Cesare Zavattini, Aldo Fabrizi and Roberto Rossellini, that he would seriously consider the cinema as a medium of expression… read more

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AKFilmFan

3May13

A film that better executes the themes of loneliness and alienation in an amoral society than Antonioni's contemplative films, Fellini's highly inventive and unconventionally structured tale is a delightful and sad film.

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Coheed 2.5

1Mar13

Link to a review here - http://mubi.com/lists/region-incognito-and-videotape-swapshop-reviews-by-coheed

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Stu Witmer

22Feb13

I’ve seen this film many times and agree that it is undoubtedly a cinema classic. However, watching it again I found myself wanting the story to be a bit more coherent. I realize that this is akin to asking for more sunny skies in a film noir but there it is.

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Bartolomé de las Casas

13Jan13

all the douchebaggery you'd find in a beer commercial

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La Dolce Vita (1960) — 100

By Travis on September 20, 2011

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La Dolce Vita is a film that dissects and explores the meaning of art, transitioning between various unconnected scenes that defy all sense of a coherent story and come together…  read review

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