La Dolce Vita
1960 | Drama | Italy | Directed by Federico Fellini
Overview
Marcello Mastroianni drifts through Rome nights, gossip, excess, and miracle mongers, toward emptiness. The word paparazzi comes from a photographer character here. Fellini left neorealism for the circus of the soul. Won the Cannes Golden Palm, was condemned by the Vatican, and packed theaters anyway. Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain, icon of icons.
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