La Dolce Vita (1960)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:50
Rotten:1
Average Rating:9.1/10
Runtime: 3 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: In Federico Fellini's seminal film LA DOLCE VITA, a three-hour masterpiece that shows one man's descent into "the sweet life" of debauchery, Marcello Mastroianni stars as eccentric journalist... [More]
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Yvonne Furneaux
Director: Federico Fellini
Reviews for La Dolce Vita
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The satire on display is so simultaneously subtle yet blatant that the movie itself is intoxicating. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Mágico e inesquecível, representa não apenas um fascinante estudo de personagem, mas também um mergulho dilacerante na fragilidade humana. E Ekberg tornou-se, para sempre, uma das maiores personificações de sensualidade oferecidas pelo Cinema.
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5/5 |
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B+ |
It's winsome because of the stylish cinematography, which fills the screen with mind-blowing bizarre visuals. Full Review |
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94/100 |
...experienced as a series of bizarre vignettes, a headlong rush into the heady air of Rome's Via Veneta , its swank nightclubs and seedy gigolos, the perfume of fame and the stink of money. Full Review |
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Films don't get more essential than this. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" operates on so many levels that it's tough to know where Fellini is coming from or where he's headed, regardless of how many times you've watched his film. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
After what we've seen of decadence during the past three decades or so, La Dolce Vita now seems tame, but people wasting time in nightclubs, dancing in the fountains of Rome, and just generally hanging out seemed a bit of a shock in 1960. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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A |
Made at the peak of Fellini's career, La Dolce Vita provided the first look into Rome's decadent cafe society, boasting superlative performances from Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Anita Ekberg, and others. Full Review |
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4/5 |
My heart wants to tell you that it's a great film, but my head fights it. I can settle it by saying that it's important, and that its joys outnumber its missteps. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
This remains a landmark movie that should be seen by every self-respecting movie buff. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Primo Fellini!
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Everyone has a favorite scene. Full Review |
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[An] epic of anomie. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
What’s incredible about Federico Fellini’s work is its sense of life. Never once does this movie feel constructed or contrived, but rather appears to be unraveling before us, unscripted and uninhibited. Full Review |
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