- Directed by
- Federico Fellini
- Year
- 1960
- Running time
- 174 min
- Country
- Italy · France
- Language
- Italian
- Music
- Nino Rota
- Starring
- Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée
Marcello writes for the gossip pages. He follows a Hollywood star through Rome at night, drifts from party to party, falls for women he can't keep, and keeps promising himself he'll write something real.
Fellini builds the film as a series of episodes, nights and mornings after, until the sweet life starts to look like a very long hangover.
why this one.
Sixty-five years later it's still the reference for every film about glamour and emptiness. And it gave the cycle its name.
The Trevi Fountain
Anita Ekberg walks into the Trevi Fountain at night in a black dress and calls Marcello in. He follows. Then the water stops. One of the most copied images in film history, and it ends on silence.
the fun fact.
The word “paparazzi” comes from this film: Paparazzo is the name of the photographer who follows Marcello. La Dolce Vita won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1960.
