La Dolce Vita ( The Sweet Life )

La Dolce Vita (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The Sweet Life
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
178 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1960 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Federico Fellini

Written By:
Federico Fellini (story) &
Ennio Flaiano (story) ...

Actors:
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Marcello Rubini
Anita Ekberg ..... Sylvia
Anouk Aimee ..... Maddalena (as Anouk Aimee)
Yvonne Furneaux ..... Emma
Magali Noël ..... Fanny (as Magali Noel)
Alain Cuny ..... Steiner
Annibale Ninchi ..... Marcello's father
Walter Santesso ..... Paparazzo
Valeria Ciangottini ..... Paola
Riccardo Garrone ..... Riccardo, the Villa Owner
Ida Galli ..... Debutante of the Year
Audrey McDonald ..... Jane
Polidor ..... Clown
Alain Dijon ..... Frankie Stout
Enzo Cerusico ..... Newspaper photographer

Synopsis:

In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He yearns to write seriously, but his inconsequential newspaper pieces bring in more money, and he's too lazy to argue with this setup. He attaches himself to a bored socialite (Anouk Aimée), whose search for thrills brings them in contact with a bisexual prostitute (Adriana Moneta). The next day, Marcello juggles a personal tragedy (the attempted suicide of his mistress (Yvonne Furneaux)) with the demands of his profession (an interview with none-too-deep film star Anita Ekberg). Throughout his adventures, Marcello's dreams, fantasies, and nightmares are mirrored by the hedonism around him. With a shrug, he concludes that, while his lifestyle is shallow and ultimately pointless, there's nothing he can do to change it and so he might as well enjoy it. Fellini's hallucinatory, circus-like depictions of modern life first earned the adjective 'Felliniesque' in this celebrated movie, which also traded on the sense of Rome as a hotbed of sex and decadence. A huge worldwide success, La Dolce Vita won several awards, including a New York Film Critics CIrcle award for Best Foreign Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Famous for coining the word 'Paparazzo' after one of its characters, this is one of Fellini's best films and made its title synoymous with the exuberant and decadent lifestyle of an era.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 November, 2006.

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