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La dolce vita marks the first collaboration between Fellini and Mastroianni. On November 4, 1977 in an interview on The Dick Cavett Show , Mastroianni recalled their first encounter. According to Mastroianni, Fellini told him that the producer wanted Paul Newman for the lead role, but that Fellini considered Newman too beautiful, while Mastroianni was "the face of normal."
Jan 30, 2016 · And indeed there are few films that managed to achieve such timelessness as much as Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). La Dolce Vita has been praised as one of the highest moment in the history of Italian filmmaking, as much as a turning point in Fellini’s career. It is the start of Fellini’s departure from his early neo-realistic ...
Jan 11, 2020 · Sixty years on, La Dolce Vita is a memory of a Rome that no longer exists. Sixty years on and Fellini’s blasphemous and fabulous magnum opus is still one of the most stylish films ever made ...
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La Dolce Vita, (Italian: “The Sweet Life”) Italian film, released in 1960, that was widely hailed as one of the most important ever made and the first of several acclaimed collaborations between director Federico Fellini and actor Marcello Mastroianni, who came to represent the director’s alter ego.
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In La Dolce Vita, Mastroianni portrayed a disillusioned journalist and gossip writer, ashamed of the shallowness of his profession but too weak to remove himself from the nightly temptations it offers: booze, easy women, and exotic fun. Rife with irony and surreal imagery whose meaning may only have been known to the director himself, the film is a compelling indictment of the decadence of modern life, mass consumerism, and what passes for high culture.
The film’s opening scene—a helicopter flying a statue of Christ to Rome is juxtaposed with a shot of a bevy of bikini-clad women—is but one of many that mix the sacred with the shallow. Such sequences caused controversy and led some countries—and the Vatican—to condemn or outright ban the film. The sets are strange and exotic, the costumes are elaborate, and many of the movie’s scenes now rank among the most famous in film history, such as one showing the blonde, zaftig Anita Ekberg frolicking in the Trevi Fountain. La Dolce Vita is credited with contributing the word paparazzi to the English language (it derives from the name of the photographer in the film, Paparazzo) and adding the adjective “Felliniesque,” referring in part to the director’s embrace of the surreal, to the movie critic’s lexicon.
•Studio: Astor Pictures Corporation
•Director: Federico Fellini
•Writer: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, and Brunello Rondi
•Music: Nino Rota
•Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Rubino)
•Anita Ekberg (Sylvia)
•Anouk Aimée (Maddalena)
•Annibale Ninchi (Marcello’s father)
•Best director
•Writing
•Costume design (black and white)*
•Art direction (black and white)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Mar 4, 2023 · Sorrentino’s 2013 film The Great Beauty (La Grande bellezza) is often compared to Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece La Dolce Vita due to their similar themes of excess and existential crisis. In fact, Sorrentino has cited La Dolce Vita as one of the films that inspired him to become a filmmaker. Like Fellini, Sorrentino is known for his vivid and ...
La Dolce Vita is an episodic work, but its chapters are bound together by the presence of common characters, above all Marcello who is present in every one. This structure is related to the unconventional exposition of the film, which eschews a standard plot for a collage effect created by the individual chapters which often constitute miniature films of their own with few characters shared ...
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Jan 5, 1997 · His autobiographical “ 8 1/2,” made three years after “La Dolce Vita,” is a companion-piece, but more knowing: There the hero is already a filmmaker, but here he is a young newspaperman on the make. The music by Nino Rota is of a perfect piece with the material.
