La dolce vita (1960) The Criterion Collection

The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.

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Cinema Explorer on Instagram: Criterion Challenge 2022 For week 6, the prompt was to watch a film from the 1960's. We saw Federico Fellini's magnum opus, La Dolce Vita. There is a