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| In Federico Fellini's seminal film LA DOLCE VITA, a three-hour masterpiece that shows one man's descent into "the sweet life" of debauchery, Marcello Mastroianni stars as eccentric journalist Marcello Rubini. On assignment to chronicle the lives of the rich and famous Italian aristocracy in a gossip column for a Roman newspaper, Marcello floats from one fabulous party to the next, meeting all varieties of beautiful, extravagant people. While he would never protest this seemingly ideal job, it makes him feel lonely and empty, and he stays up drinking and dancing night after night only to wake up each morning unbalanced and unfocused. The film follows Marcello's ups and downs in an episodic pattern in which each evening is a new story, a new adventure, a new dare, a new woman with whom to fall helplessly in love--but only for that night. Each morning the slate is wiped clean, and Fellini resets Marcello's score to zero. Sprinkled with religious images and gestures at salvation, LA DOLCE VITA is supreme in ... |
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Key Information
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| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Directors: |
Federico Fellini |
| Actors: |
Alain Cuny · Jacques Sernas · Laura Betti · Magali Noel · Nadia Gray · Nico · Riccardo Garrone · Yvonne Furneaux |
| Stars: |
Anita Ekberg · Anouk Aimie · Marcello Mastroianni |
| UPC: |
017153221237, 736899007058, 741952301295, 741952305194 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 58min |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: 2-Disc Collector's Edition, DVD: Deluxe Edition, VHS |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended |
| Release Date: |
1960 |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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VHS Editions
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- VHS
- 2hr 53min
- Republic Pictures Home Video
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 54min
- Discount Video Tapes, Inc.
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 54min
- Festival Films
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 54min
- Lorimar Home Video
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 55min
- Movies Unlimited
- Not Rated
, - VHS
- 2hr 58min
- Republic Pictures Home Video
- November 29, 1990
- Not Rated
- 017153221237
, - VHS
- 3hr 0min
- Facets Video
- Not Rated
- 736899007058
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Brunello Rondi, Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli |
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Professional Reviews
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(01/05/1997, p.5, Roger Ebert): "...The movie leaps from one visual extravaganza to another....The movie is made with boundless energy...", (04/10/1992, p.F15, Kevin Thomas): "...One of the key works of the modern cinema. A brilliantly conceived epic fable...", (04/30/2004, p.E4, Kevin Thomas): "With its shimmering, beguilingly familiar Nino Rota score, Otello Martelli's ravishingly lighted black-and-white cinematography and its endless processions of the foolish, the grotesque, the jaded and the merely young and beautiful, LA DOLCE VITA is truly unforgettable.", (09/24/2004, p.10E, Mike Clark): "[T]his remains a mesmerizing spectacle with gonzo casting.", (09/24/2004, p.89-90, Steve Daly): "[A] peerless, protean act of visual choreography.", (11/01/2004, p.103, Glenn Kenny): "[A] piercing depiction of moral failure with a palpable sense of desolation at its core.", (12/01/2004, p.76, Geoffrey Macnab): "[Fellini] highlights the triviality and absurdity of a culture in which every banality uttered by a star obsesses the press..." |
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