About this movie
- Genres:
- Classics, World Cinema
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 2:53:52
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 1960
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Rubini
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Anouk Aimée
Maddalena
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Anita Ekberg
Sylvia
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Yvonne Furneaux
Emma
- Magali Noel
- Nico
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Alain Cuny
Steiner
- Riccardo Garrone
- Laura Betti
- Jacques Sernas
- Nadia Gray
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Lex Barker
Robert
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Annibale Ninchi
Marcello's father
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Valeria Ciangottini
Paola
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Walter Santesso
Paparazzo
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Archie Savage
Negro Dancer
Directors
- Federico Fellini
Producers
- Giuseppe Amato
- Angelo Rizzoli
Writers
- Federico Fellini
- Ennio Flaiano
- Tullio Pinelli
- Brunello Rondi
La Dolce Vita
In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He yearns to write seriously, but his inconsequential newspaper pieces bring in more money, and he's too lazy to argue with this setup. He attaches himself to a bored socialite (Anouk Aimée), whose search for thrills brings them in contact with a bisexual prostitute. The next day, Marcello juggles a personal tragedy (the attempted suicide of his mistress (Yvonne Furneaux)) with the demands of his profession (an interview with none-too-deep film star Anita Ekberg). Throughout his adventures, Marcello's dreams, fantasies, and nightmares are mirrored by the hedonism around him. With a shrug, he concludes that, while his lifestyle is shallow and ultimately pointless, there's nothing he can do to change it and so he might as well enjoy it. Fellini's hallucinatory, circus-like depictions of modern life first earned the adjective "Felliniesque" in this celebrated movie, which also traded on the idea of Rome as a hotbed of sex and decadence. A huge worldwide success, La Dolce Vita won several awards, including a New York Film Critics CIrcle award for Best Foreign Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
98%
percent positive reviews
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Fran Hortop, Film4In spite of its thematic ugliness, this is a stunning-looking trawl through the Italian capital, with Ekberg's impromptu paddle in the Trevi fountain still the films enduring image.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
The film was hugely successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing.
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Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
[An] epic of anomie.
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Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Everyone has a favorite scene.
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