La Dolce Vita

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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • 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

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1961 - Best Costume Design (b&w): Not Applicable
Cannes 1960 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 34,052
[Fellini] highlights the triviality and absurdity of a culture in which every banality uttered by a star obsesses the press...
Sight and Sound
Dec 1, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- It has become a time capsule: an exotic picture of a bygone Rome. Full Review
Sunday Times (UK)
Jan 7, 2020
Rating: 5/5 -- It is a brilliant film, but there is nothing sweet about it. Full Review
Guardian
Jan 3, 2020
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. Full Review
Variety
May 8, 2007
Rating: 4/5 -- This film defined a decade before the decade arrived. Full Review
Financial Times
Dec 23, 2019
[A] peerless, protean act of visual choreography.
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 24, 2004
With its shimmering, beguilingly familiar Nino Rota score, Otello Martelli's ravishingly lighted black-and-white cinematography and its endless processions of the foolish, the grotesque, the jaded and the merely young and beautiful, LA DOLCE VITA is truly unforgettable.
Los Angeles Times
Apr 30, 2004

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.

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  • UPC: 715515129015
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