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Fellini's La Dolce Vita



"La Dolce Vita," Fellini's flamboyant achievement embodied in the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1960, also marks a turning point in the work of the great Italian filmmaker, who finally broke here with the realism of his debut to go to an art where life never escape to the gentle influence of imagination.

Marcello Mastroianni portrays perfectly the film's hero, a disillusioned journalist accompanying the All-Rome film world and high society in a race devoid of taste pleasure as sense. Certainly ironic, "La Dolce Vita" is dreamlike, poetic and touching. The humor is a tartness, baroque Fellini is expressed dramatically.