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Film · 1960 · Comedy drama
La Dolce Vita
Directed by Federico Fellini
1960
Italy
★ 8.8 editorial score
It put the word paparazzi into every language on earth: Fellini drifts through seven Roman nights of parties and beautiful exhaustion, and the fountain at dawn became permanent.
“Setting aside the small gestures, the delicate observation of daily life and the sympathetic characterisation associated with neo-realism, "La Dolce Vita" is a large-scale satire with grand set pieces and forceful visual metaphors. Its target is a godless society that has become a kind of hell and it has rightly been compared with TS Eliot's depiction of a moribund post-First World War Europe in "The Waste Land".”
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