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La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life)

La dolce vita

1960

Federico Fellini

Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux ...

7.7

25,761

Drama. Comedy On assignment to chronicle the lives of the rich and famous Italian aristocracy in a gossip column for a Roman newspaper, Marcello (Mastroianni) 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. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The movie is made with boundless energy. (...) Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"In sum, it is an awesome picture, licentious in content but moral and vastly sophisticated in its attitude and what it says. An excellent cast performs it."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"It has not lost the power to fascinate, stimulate and provoke, and it remains a work of moral force and a visual delight."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing"	NEG
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Fellini's other masterpiece has aged incredibly well, and holds up as well as it ever did to repeat viewing. It's not on the big top ten lists for nothing (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Stella Papamichael BBC	"Vibrant and despairing (...) Fellini steadily builds tension with each rise and fall (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matthew Connolly Slant	"It’s a film that more or less earns its right to criticize because it has bothered to look deeply at the world it seeks to assess (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle	"It's a gorgeous artifact (...) [A] masterwork"	POS

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