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"Wonderful, Insightful Cinema
from Italy's Finest"
"English only version of a
Fellini Masterpiece"
"A true classic for all to see"
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La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini with Anita Ekberg and
Marcello Mastroianni |
Review
At three brief hours, Fellini's cynical,
engrossing social commentary, La Dolce Vita, stands as his
timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern
decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in
structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist
through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini is a
tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence, as
extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni, a man of
paradoxical, emotional juxtapositions: cool but tortured, sexy but
impotent. He dreams about writing something important but remains
seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow
position. He romanticises about finding true love but acts unfazed
upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping
pills. Instead, he engages in a ménage à trois, then frolics in
a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita
Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends
a wild orgy that ends, symbolically with its participants finding
a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn.
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