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La Dolce Vita [Audio: Italy]
In Federico Fellini's lauded Italian film, restless reporter Marcello Rubini drifts through life in an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness.
30 July 1925, Kaunas, Lithuania
23 November 1923, Bucharest, Romania
6 August 1945, Rome, Lazio, Italy
20 November 1887, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
9 March 1939, Sestola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
September 3, 1931 in Rionero in Vulture, Basilicata, Italy
1 November 1926, Rome, Lazio, Italy
August 28, 1922 in Chambéry, Savoie, France
October 16, 1938 in Cologne, Germany
11 May 1928, Lille, Nord, France
19 May 1887, Bayonne, France
27 February 1931, Vigonza, Veneto, Italy
3 August 1901, Naples, Campania, Italy
October 22, 1937 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
January 15, 1930 in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
1 May 1927, Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
March 15, 1926 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
April 2, 1934 in Novara, Piedmont, Italy
1902, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
28 September 1924, Fontana Liri, Lazio, Italy
June 03, 2011
What is happiness within the film's world? Fellini offers no easy answers.
April 20, 2009
In spite of its thematic ugliness, this is a stunning-looking trawl through the Italian capital, with Ekberg's impromptu paddle in the Trevi fountain still the films enduring image.
April 24, 2009
The satire on display is so simultaneously subtle yet blatant that the movie itself is intoxicating.
October 19, 2016
'60s Fellini classic has sex, drinking, suicide.
February 17, 2010
Along with his later 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita is regarded as one of acclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini's best-loved and most influential films. The '60s-set tale of one man's struggle with the so-called "sweet life" stars Marcello Mastroi
May 08, 2007
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.
August 15, 2011
A lovely Italian palette that questions if we can settle down to a life of struggle without having first lived life at its best.
May 01, 2013
Fellini has set out to move us with the depravity of contemporary life and has chosen what seems to me a poor method: cataloging sins. Very soon we find ourselves thinking: Is that all?
January 26, 2006
There are perhaps a couple of party scenes too many, and the peripheral characters can be unconvincing, but the stylish cinematography and Fellini's bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting.
December 27, 2004
Everyone has a favorite scene.
May 08, 2007
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.
June 01, 2011
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is.

