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. 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. Throughout his adventures, Marcello's dreams, fantasies, and nightmares are mirrored by the hedonism around him. Set over seven decadent days, the film follows Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering journalist, pursuing a happiness that’s always just out of reach. Federico Fellini’s exquisite tale of celebrity casts an adoring yet critical eye towards '60s Rome. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, a beguiling, shocking, sexy, cruel film that takes aim at our culture’s celebrity worship.It is also one of cinema’s enduring masterpieces, frequently featured in film critics’ Top Ten lists and one of the late Roger Ebert’s all-time favorites. 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). Federico Fellini, Italy 1960, 176 min., Italian with English subtitles. This film is part of the Cinematic Katzenjammer’s Not-So-Secret-Santa Blogathon. The Regional Agency for Cultural Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia in collaboration with Cinemazero of. He attaches himself to a bored socialite ( Anouk Aimée), whose search for thrills brings them in contact with a bisexual prostitute. La Dolce Vita isn’t the classic I’d expected, but as one of the most important works of Fellini’s career, it’s certainly enthusiastic, charming, and baffling if not always enlightening. Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920. He yearns to write seriously, but his inconsequential newspaper pieces bring in more money, and he's too lazy to argue with this setup.
Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini.