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La Dolce Vita [Audio: Italy]
In Federico Fellini's lauded Italian film, restless reporter Marcello Rubini drifts through life in an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness.
20 November 1887, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
19 May 1887, Bayonne, France
30 July 1925, Kaunas, Lithuania
19 April 1914, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
1 December 1928, Whitstable, Kent, England, UK
December 23, 1907 in Naples, Campania, Italy
1 May 1927, Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
27 April 1932, Paris, France
12 August 1940, Bari, Puglia, Italy
December 11, 1931 in Sannicola, Puglia, Italy
October 19, 2016
'60s Fellini classic has sex, drinking, suicide.June 03, 2011
What is happiness within the film's world? Fellini offers no easy answers.May 08, 2007
Perhaps many spectators will squirm at the three-hour length of the film or of some of its sequences (though director Federico Fellini cut some 30 minutes from his final print), yet others will never notice they've sat that long.April 24, 2009
The satire on display is so simultaneously subtle yet blatant that the movie itself is intoxicating.January 26, 2006
There are perhaps a couple of party scenes too many, and the peripheral characters can be unconvincing, but the stylish cinematography and Fellini's bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting.June 01, 2011
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is.December 27, 2004
Everyone has a favorite scene.May 08, 2007
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.August 15, 2011
A lovely Italian palette that questions if we can settle down to a life of struggle without having first lived life at its best.April 20, 2009
In 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.May 01, 2013
Fellini has set out to move us with the depravity of contemporary life and has chosen what seems to me a poor method: cataloging sins. Very soon we find ourselves thinking: Is that all?February 17, 2010
Along with his later 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita is regarded as one of acclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini's best-loved and most influential films. The '60s-set tale of one man's struggle with the so-called "sweet life" stars Marcello Mastroi