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La Dolce Vita (1961)
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At three brief hours, La Dolce Vita, a piece of cynical, engrossing social commentary, stands as Federico Fellini's 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 (extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni) is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence. A man of paradoxical emotional juxtapositions (cool but tortured, sexy but impotent), he dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the...
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There is nothing like a Fellini film, many try but they just cannot come close; and this is the pinnacle of Fellini's excellence. A gorgeous film about embracing life while we still can.
A series of moments define the life of Marcello, a womanizing journalist, yet each somehow leads to the next in a disconnected and...
(complete La Dolce Vita review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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