La Dolce Vita (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 12, 2014
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée & Anita Ekberg | |
Performer: | Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Nico, Alain Cuny, Riccardo Garrone, Laura Betti, Jacques Sernas & Nadia Gray | |
Directed by | Federico Fellini | |
Edited by | Leo Cattozzo | |
Screenwriting by | Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli & Brunello Rondi | |
Composition by | Nino Rota | |
Produced by | Giuseppe Amato & Angelo Rizzoli | |
Director of Photography: | Otello Martelli | |
Executive Production by | Franco Magli |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1961 -
Best Costume Design (b&w): Not Applicable
Cannes 1960 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Chicago Reader
"La Dolce Vita" translates to "The Sweet Life," but around my house it translates to "The Best Movie Ever."
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culturevulture.net
Rating: 4/4 --
A lovely Italian palette that questions if we can settle down to a life of struggle without having first lived life at its best.
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Cinema Sight
Federico Fellini’s rereleased film brilliantly captures postwar Rome and its denizens as they tumble headlong into hedonistic excess -- and secret melancholy.
The Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
It is a brilliant film, but there is nothing sweet about it.
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Guardian
[A] piercing depiction of moral failure with a palpable sense of desolation at its core.
Premiere
...One of the key works of the modern cinema. A brilliantly conceived epic fable...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
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 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.
Keywords:
Classic
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Self-Discovery
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Recommended
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Reporters
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Satire
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Surreal
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Sixties
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Theatrical Release
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Italy
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1960s
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Essential Cinema