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La
Dolce Vita
(Directed by Federico Fellini, starring
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee)
In
our panicked and pleasure-seeking run-up to Christmas, nothing could
be more timely than the NFT's re-release of Federico Fellini's La
Dolce Vita or The Sweet Life.
| "Fellini
fulfils the viewer's desire to identify with the debauched lifestyle
of Rome's young and beautiful..." |
On
the one hand Fellini offers you an image of a man drowning in his
own careless narcissism and delivers a warning against decadent
and irresponsible hedonism.
On
the other hand he fulfils, in the space of a couple of cinematic
hours, the viewer's desire to identify with the debauched lifestyle
of Rome's young and beautiful in the 1950s.
suffocatingly
stylish
So
follow Marcello, the playboy journalist, as he makes his nocturnal
party rounds to fuel his society gossip column, and any adventure
worthy of his sexual ennui.
Feel
like a reluctant tourist as you watch (again) the Trevi Fountain
scene with a cavorting Anita Ekberg, probably the least notable,
but most widely recalled and most kitsch scene in the film.
Instead
make a note of Anouk Aimee - Marcello's suffocatingly stylish ephemeral
lover.
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