On the surface, it’s a sweet life of cool detachment and careless hedonism, but there’s also a dark side as his girlfriend is driven to attempt suicide by his constant philandering and a gnawing sense for Marcello that his life has no meaning. Released in 1960 when Stuart Sutcliffe was still in The Beatles, Fellini’s movie follows gossip journalist and failed novelist Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) as he wanders Rome looking for stories, chasing women and an ideal of happiness that always seems tantalisingly close and yet agonizingly far. ![]() ![]() It is hard to overstate the importance of Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita to world cinema, but let’s try anyway.
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