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Article: LA DOLCE VITA.(Review) (movie review) (movie review)
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- History Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Stephen Gundle settles in the stalls to re-view the epochal Fellini film that defined the hedonistic spirit of post-war Italy.
ALTHOUGH IT WAS MADE FORTY YEARS ago, La Dolce Vita remains a very contemporary film.
Directed by Federico Fellini at the height of his creative powers, it offers an extraordinary panorama of aspects of Roman life at the very moment when Italy was shedding its rural past and becoming a turbulent industrial society. Such is the stylistic appeal of the film that images and scenes from it continue to be copied and re-cycled in magazine articles, fashion spreads and advertisements. The film's louche image, symbolised by the ...