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Good

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Tragic

FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Anita Ekberg Anouk Aimee Magali Noel Marcello Mastroianni Yvonne Furneaux

Directors Federico Fellini

Screenwriters Brunello Rondi Ennio Flaiano Federico Fellini Pier Paolo Pasolini Tullio Pinelli

Running Time 174 minutes

La Dolce Vita (15)

Plot
Marcello (Mastroianni) isa gossip columnist for an Italian newspaper. Surrounded by decadence, celebrity and parties, he is in pursuit of the dream life - which he believes he sees all around him, and is personified by the intellectual Steiner (Cuny). Over a week, we see a glimpse of Marcello's larger journey away from the one thing he seeks - happiness.

Verdict
With perhaps the exception of the modus operandi of modern paparazzi, Fellini's other masterpiece has aged incerdibly well, and holds up as well as it ever did to repeat viewing. It's not on the big top ten lists for nothing.


Reviewer: David Parkinson

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