Review of La Dolce Vita (1960) by Ninon M — 23 Aug 2017

'La Dolce Vita' is an extraordinary film, a grand and long fresco of episodes (its length, that's true can exhaust some - though every moment of it is completely justified). It's an apotheosis of artistry and style, an ecstasy of beautiful, sensual and sculptural images which once gathered deliver their true bitterness, the bitterness of the easy pleasures and the debauchery experienced by cheap journalist Marcello (Mastroianni), a man who dreamed of literature and art and who falls in the softness of its bright - yet aimless life.

Remarkably structured, 'La Dolce Vita' alternates sequences of day and night, following Marcello and its encounters in a starry, elegant and surreal Roma, an open theatre showing sparkling monuments shot in a stunning modern manner.