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In Federico Fellini's popular 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 the beauty of its all-encompassing symbolism that is expressed through lavish sets, an alluring script, overemphasized physical movements, roller-coaster jazz music, and helpless emotions.Product Identifiers
EAN5060021171429
eBay Product ID (ePID)3956468
Product Key Features
ActorYvonne Furneaux, Lex Barker, Anouk Aimee, Anita Ekberg, Marcello Mastroianni
Film/TV TitleLa Dolce Vita
DirectorFederico Fellini
LanguageItalian
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time166 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.77 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2001
FeaturesBlack & White, Widescreen, Filmography\Fellini Biography, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureItaly
ReviewsLos Angeles Times - ...One of the key works of the modern cinema. A brilliantly conceived epic fable...
Sound sourceMono
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Movie/TV TitleLa Dolce Vita