La Dolce Vita (1960)
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Critic Consensus: An epic, breathtakingly stylish cinematic landmark, La Dolce Vita remains riveting in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- its sprawling length.
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Cast
as Marcello Rubino
as Sylvia
as Maddalena
as Emma
as Nadia
as Fanny
as Steiner
as Rubino's Father
as Robert
as Matinee Idol
as Signora Steiner
as Paparazzo
as Paola
as Frankie Stout
as Signora Steiner
as Clown
as Don Giulio
as Frankie Stout
as Irate Man in Nightclub
as Prostitute
as Her Friend
as Their Pimp
as Spoleto Ballerina
as Their Pimp
as Doctor
as Sylvia's Secretary
as Effeminate Male
as Producer
as Rock 'n' Roll Singer
as Negro Dancer
as Maddalena's Father
as Their Mother
as Their Uncle
as Television Director
as Yvonne's Companion
as Poetess
as Lucy
as Sylvia's Secretary
as Gloria
as Sophisticated Prostitute
as Prince Mascalchi
as Sonia
as English Medium
as Maddalena's Lover
as Debutante of the Year
as Woman in Seance
as Police Commissioner
as Nadia's Lover
as Domino
as Transvestite
as Muscle Man
as Spoleto Ballerina
as Matinee Idol's Girl Friend
as Negro Dancer
as Laura
as Riccardo, the Villa Owner
as Nicollina
as Girl Covered with Feathers
as Don Eugenio Mascalchi
as Daniela
as Nadia's Admirer
as Photojournalist
as Photojournalist
as Photojournalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Press Conference Journalist
as Steiner's Other Guest
as Steiner's Other Guest
as Steiner's Other Guest
as Steiner's Other Guest
as Steiner's Other Guest
as Steiner's Other Guest
as Giovanni
as Lisa
as Lawyer with Nadia's Bra
as Man in Sunglasses That Helps Nadia Strip
as Young Woman Making Confession at Nadia's Party
as Reporter
as Lying Child of The Miracle
as Bimbo del miracolo
as Lady in White Coat at Castle
as Scalise's Assistant
as Woman at Airport
as Woman at Airport
as Movie News Cameraman
as Woman at Airport
as Gianelli
as Woman in Via Veneto
as Man in Via Veneto
as Woman in Via Veneto
as Woman in Via Veneto
as Man at Nightclub
as Man at Nightclub
as Woman in Nightclub
as Man at Nightclub
as Woman in Miracle Sequence
as Man in Miracle Sequence
as Man in Miracle Sequence
as Man at Castle
as Woman in Miracle Sequence
as Woman at Castle
as Massamilla
as Man at Castle That Dislikes Dog's Smell
as The Beautiful Horseman
as Woman at Castle
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Critic Reviews for La Dolce Vita
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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?
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone has a favorite scene.
Audience Reviews for La Dolce Vita
Told in a brilliant episodic structure, this fascinating character study is the truest definition of Felliniesque: an exceptional film that is magical in its fanciful depiction of glamour in Roman aristocracy and depressing in the way it shows the decadence of a society and of man himself.
Super Reviewer
Italian Movie about a player that in 1960 must have raised eyebrows, I didnt enjoy it 1 star
Super Reviewer
Essential surrealist film, La Dolce Vita is an early critique to press photography, bourgeois society, special attention to stars and social decadence.
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La Dolce Vita Quotes
| Sylvia: | Marcello, come here! |
| Steiner: | Sometimes at night the darkness and silence weigh upon me. Peace frightens me; perhaps I fear it most of all. I feel it is only a façade hiding the face of hell. I think, 'What is in store for my children tomorrow?' 'The world will be wonderful', they say. But from whose viewpoint? If one phone call could announce the end of everything? We need to live in a state of suspended animation like a work of art, in a state of enchantment. We have to succeed in loving so greatly that we live outside of time, detached. |
| Steiner: | Sometimes at night the darkness and silence weigh upon me. Peace frightens me; perhaps I fear it most of all. I feel it is only a façade hiding the face of hell. I think, 'What is in store for my children tomorrow?' 'The world will be wonderful', they say. But from whose viewpoint? If one phone call could announce the end of everything? We need to live in a state of suspended animation like a work of art, in a state of enchantment. We have to succeed in loving so greatly that we live outside of time, detached. |