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Mastroianni followed La Dolce Vita with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a film in Fellini's 8½ (1963).
Sep 22, 2024 · As the star of Le notti bianche (1957; White Nights), he was noticed by the Italian director Federico Fellini who cast him in the leading role of the world-weary journalist in La dolce vita (1960; “The Sweet Life”), the award-winning film that established Mastroianni’s international reputation.
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Sep 27, 2024 · Why is Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita, the one film more responsible for Mastroianni’s lecherous reputation than any other, even on this list? In short, because it was (and remains) misunderstood, starting with the deceptively sweet title, which was meant to mock the postwar decadence of Rome’s stylish jetset.
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Fellini scrapped a major sequence that would have involved the relationship of Marcello with Dolores, an older writer living in a tower, to be played by 1930s Academy Award-winning actress Luise Rainer. [18]
Jan 5, 1997 · Fellini shot the movie in 1959 on the Via Veneto, the Roman street of nightclubs, sidewalk cafes and the parade of the night. His hero is a gossip columnist, Marcello, who chronicles “the sweet life” of fading aristocrats, second-rate movie stars, aging playboys and women of commerce.
May 20, 2021 · By Fellini standards, it could be called almost ordinary. The story follows Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni), a tabloid and celebrity gossip writer, through several typical days.
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Marcello Mastroianni on Fellini In a fascinating 1963 audio interview featured on our new release of La dolce vita, actor Marcello Mastroianni talks to film historian Gideon Bachmann about how he met Federico Fellini and was cast in La dolce vita.
