

La Dolce Vita [Audio: Italy]
In Federico Fellini's lauded Italian film, restless reporter Marcello Rubini drifts through life in an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness.
















1 November 1926, Rome, Lazio, Italy

6 August 1945, Rome, Lazio, Italy


3 August 1901, Naples, Campania, Italy

21 March 1934, Rome, Lazio, Italy


December 4, 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy


23 November 1923, Bucharest, Romania

27 February 1931, Vigonza, Veneto, Italy

September 3, 1931 in Rionero in Vulture, Basilicata, Italy

January 5, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

March 15, 1926 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

1896 in Rome, Italy

October 16, 1938 in Cologne, Germany


1902, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

May 6, 1903 in Venice, Veneto, Italy

1 December 1928, Whitstable, Kent, England, UK


January 15, 1930 in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

11 May 1928, Lille, Nord, France

December 23, 1907 in Naples, Campania, Italy

20 November 1887, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

27 June 1932, Izmir, Turkey

January 6, 1938 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy

19 April 1914, Norfolk, Virginia, USA


29 September 1931, Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

14 March 1914, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

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February 17, 2010
Along with his later 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita is regarded as one of acclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini's best-loved and most influential films. The '60s-set tale of one man's struggle with the so-called "sweet life" stars Marcello Mastroi
April 24, 2009
The satire on display is so simultaneously subtle yet blatant that the movie itself is intoxicating.
April 20, 2009
In spite of its thematic ugliness, this is a stunning-looking trawl through the Italian capital, with Ekberg's impromptu paddle in the Trevi fountain still the films enduring image.
August 15, 2011
A lovely Italian palette that questions if we can settle down to a life of struggle without having first lived life at its best.
May 08, 2007
The film was hugely successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing.
October 19, 2016
'60s Fellini classic has sex, drinking, suicide.
January 26, 2006
There are perhaps a couple of party scenes too many, and the peripheral characters can be unconvincing, but the stylish cinematography and Fellini's bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting.
June 01, 2011
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is.
June 03, 2011
What is happiness within the film's world? Fellini offers no easy answers.
May 08, 2007
Perhaps many spectators will squirm at the three-hour length of the film or of some of its sequences (though director Federico Fellini cut some 30 minutes from his final print), yet others will never notice they've sat that long.
December 27, 2004
Everyone has a favorite scene.
May 01, 2013
Fellini has set out to move us with the depravity of contemporary life and has chosen what seems to me a poor method: cataloging sins. Very soon we find ourselves thinking: Is that all?![La Dolce Vita [Audio: Italy]](/dist/image/player/soundsNav.png)