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Nick Piccolino
4May12
Really enjoyed this, I have a feeling when I watch it again I'll enjoy it even more
Chris Jones
6Apr12
Holden Caulfield took some Prozac and grew up to be a journalist and to nobody's surprise, he's still a boring piece of shit.
Giulia Cavaliere
22Mar12
Alla quarta visione un innamoramento nuovo, ancora oscuro, ancora appassionato. La mattina al risveglio lo stomaco al contrario, il grosso mostro arenato, Mastroianni inginocchiato vestito di bianco e quella statua che non raggiunge il Papa, l'intellettuale che si ammazza. Oh Federico, Federico...
chanandre
7Sep11
Rated 4, now i rate it a 5. Was not a fan. now I'm a fan. Liked it a lot, Now I Think it's a bloody (LOl) masterpiece. This film aged so well. that ending. fock. its slogan coulda been "marcellooooooooooooooo!" aha. cult films should only be like this, this good. damn. the soundtrack. eerie.the ending. the I can't hear you, you underaged cutey. what? oops. freeze frame, thats a wrap;what an ending. Definition of <3
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FailedImitator
22Jun11
What the hell happened at the end? The last 20 minutes, to be precise.That's one jagged switcharoo if I ever saw one. That aside, I really enjoyed the film.
evening_enchanted
5Jun11
It's the images that remain with you - Anita Ekberg in the Trevi fountain, the Madonna spotting and the subsequent media and spectator frenzy, the get-together of intellectuals at Steiner's house and later the chilling murder. Somehow the film is both dazzling and unsettling.
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João Pedro
17Apr11
Fruitless demand in an existential crisis. A film with course of events that barely gives you time to pause and reflect. An impressive cinematography and a soundtrack to remember. Nevertheless I wasn't to pleased with the approach on the theme. 3.5
msmichel
9Apr11
Fellini's take on the decadant aristrocracy and the beginning of celebrity fixation. Mastroianni's character flirts in and out of their culture no better than the ones he disdains or covets. One of the all time classic films with so many brilliant moments contained within. A three hour film which barely gives one time to pause for reflection. The film marked a stylistic change that established him as A TRUE GREAT
Graveyard Poet
18Mar11
Fellini's epic whirlwind of delectable moments in the streets of Rome. This classic contains a wealth of memorable scenes--Steiner's intellectual apartment and his suicide, the mysterious and ghostly mansion Bassano di Sutri and the mass at dawn, the final orgy, Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in the Trevi fountain.
Adrian Mendoza
28Feb11
i remember watching this for the first time on a sunday morning. im a bit hung over and people are in church.
AntioneOscar69
14Feb11
A masterpiece; stunning, engrossing, timeless, funny, touching, visually out of this world.
Platform_Magazine
10Aug10
Fellini's best film. Brilliantly evocative of decadent 1960s Roma. Structurally immaculate. Cool as fuck and contains more memorable scenes than any other film that I've seen.
Dennis Lyons
26Jun10
With as complete a portait as can be painted of a man, we are lucky as an audience that this man is Marcello Mastroianni, the hopelessly charismatic lead character arguably depicting a variation of his own celebrity personae, traveling through the seven gates of heaven, or hell depending on the prospects.
dBainy
18Apr10
La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2 are by far the best films of Federico Fellini. I often wonder when does an auteur reach his/her peak and when he/she becomes washed up. It happens sooner than one thinks or prepared for. Perhaps like other arts, it is the cusp between 1. having reached a peak and having hope, and 2. realizing universal truths and become overwhelmed by one's own dismay and resignation. In 8 1/2, a semi-autobiography of Fellini, is the beginning of this cusp and La Dolce Vita is the end of this cusp for Fellini. This film poignantly looks at the roots of our "instincts" and "motives" for our careers. Sadly they are base and in vain. - La Dolce Vita.
