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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.
1902, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
23 November 1923, Bucharest, Romania
August 28, 1922 in Chambéry, Savoie, France
8 May 1919, Rye, New York, USA
11 May 1928, Lille, Nord, France
1 May 1927, Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
19 May 1887, Bayonne, France
October 22, 1937 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
1896 in Rome, Italy
6 August 1945, Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
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.
April 24, 2009
The satire on display is so simultaneously subtle yet blatant that the movie itself is intoxicating.
June 03, 2011
What is happiness within the film's world? Fellini offers no easy answers.
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.
June 01, 2011
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is.
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
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.
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.
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?
October 19, 2016
'60s Fellini classic has sex, drinking, suicide.

