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La dolce vita

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aim�e, Yvonne Furneaux View All

Crew

Federico Fellini (Screenplay), Federico Fellini (Director), Federico Fellini (Story), Tullio Pinelli (Screenplay) View All

Release: Feb. 5th, 1960

Runtime: 2 hours, 54 minutes

Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

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The film does bring us to some wonderful places and most of the time shows wealthy and handsome people partying and getting it on with eachother, but instead of romanticizing this lifestyle that many people always fantasize about so much, Fellini reveals the dark truth about what's beneath all the magnificent clothes, stylish clubs, expensive cars, liters of booze and evenings of sex...

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Fellini fashions his own completely-unique film about empty journalist Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) who follows other empty people around Rome and writes up their lives for the even emptier "regular people" to feed upon in a way to forget about their own lives.

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