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Original Name: La Dolce Vita
English Name: La Dolce Vita
Year: 1960
Run Time:174'
Language: Italian | English | French | German
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Black & White
Country: Italy | France
Director: Federico Fellini
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli , Giuseppe Amato
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny
Screenplay: Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Brunello Rondi
Cinematographer: Otello Martelli
Editor: Leo Cattozzo
Sound Designer: Oscar Di Santo, Agostino Moretti
Music Composer: Nino Rota
Costume Designer: Piero Gherardi
Production Designer: Piero Gherardi
Production Company: Riama Film
World Sales: Neo Films
One of Italy’s great modern directors, Federico Fellini was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique. Fellini started as a screenwriter and collaborated with Roberto Rossellini on Roma, Open City. Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women. His work and Fellini himself remain to be an influential and indivisible part of cinema.
A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become. Soared over seven parts, indicating seven days of week, each part tells new story in an underbelly of fame, deception, and a society that is engulfed, or perhaps captured in perceived reality of make belief world.
