La dolce vita (Italian for "The Sweet Life") is a 1960 film by the critically acclaimed director Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist's week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come. Cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini's earlier neo-realist films and his later art films, it is considered as one of the great achievements in world cinema.
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La dolce vita (Italian for "The Sweet Life") is a 1960 film by the critically acclaimed director Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist's week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come. Cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini's earlier neo-realist films and his later art films, it is considered as one of the great achievements in world cinema.
Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) is a journalist in Rome in the 1950s covering tabloid news: movie stars, religious visions and the decadent aristocracy.
The film covers seven days of Marcello's life. Marcello lives with Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), a woman who loves him. Marcello resists her possessive, motherly attitude towards love and her conventional perspective of life, while Emma ignores Marcello's inarticulate search for value and meaning. He encounters numerous women throughout the movie, including Maddalena (Anouk Aimée), a beautiful, wealthy and jaded lover, and Sylvia ...
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