Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio Blu-ray DVD review of “La Dolce Vita,” the Federico Fellini film masterpiece that introduced the 1960s to itself, and the term “Paparazzi” to the language, now available through Paramount Pictures wherever Blu-rays are sold.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
This is the story of Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni), a tabloid journalist who lives the “La Dolce Vita” … the luxurious but self indulgent life. The story is split into seven days in his timeline, not consecutive days, in which he wrestles the themes of his existence – religion, sex, family and death – the usual things. Along the way his fiancee Emma (Yvonne Furneaux) is angry at him; he’s also trying to seduce a gorgeous starlet (Anita Ekberg), who is ignoring him; a religious miracle turns out not to be a miracle; and his estranged Dad (Annibale Ninchi) wants to hang out with him. His times, they are a-changin’.
La Dolce Vita...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
This is the story of Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni), a tabloid journalist who lives the “La Dolce Vita” … the luxurious but self indulgent life. The story is split into seven days in his timeline, not consecutive days, in which he wrestles the themes of his existence – religion, sex, family and death – the usual things. Along the way his fiancee Emma (Yvonne Furneaux) is angry at him; he’s also trying to seduce a gorgeous starlet (Anita Ekberg), who is ignoring him; a religious miracle turns out not to be a miracle; and his estranged Dad (Annibale Ninchi) wants to hang out with him. His times, they are a-changin’.
La Dolce Vita...
- 6/28/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
I first watched Federico Fellini's 1960 film, La Dolce Vita, just over five years ago and with this week marking what would have been the filmmaker's 94th birthday I've chosen La Dolce Vita as the debut film in my Best Movies feature. Not because I believe it to be his best (though it certainly is one of the best), but largely because I've had the urge to watch it again ever since learning Paramount has finally been granted exclusive rights to the film, prompting me to hope it will finally receive a domestic Blu-ray release sometime soon. Captured in lovely black-and-white, Otello Martelli's cinematography lives up to the literal translation of the film's title -- "the sweet life" -- while the narrative focuses on a character living a life more empty than "sweet". Marking the first time Marcello Mastroianni and Fellini would work together, Mastroianni plays Marcello Rubini, a...
- 1/22/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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