Review of La Dolce Vita (1960) by Fred H — 11 Feb 2008
What is celebrity? Fame? Glamour? Fellini's answer simple: illness. Mastroianni in perfect form is looking for happiness and love, except he isn't. Likewise the high life is beautiul, liberal, and fun except it can also be hideous, alienated, and straining.
This plotless film works precisely because there is no journey. Yes, our gossip columnist goes from exotic location, to elite parties with interesting and beautiful people, to a cultic phenomena and back but the film is really the unraveling of a man into loneliness and ennui where he finds himself not saved by god, but facing a beast. And love? It comes to him in whispers, phone calls. It waves from a remote distance beckoning: untouchable; virgin.
This review of La Dolce Vita (1960) was written by Fred H on 11 Feb 2008.
La Dolce Vita has generally received very positive reviews.
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