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.

Movie Info:

Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Director: Federico Fellini
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli, Giuseppe Amato
Writer: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tullio Pinelli
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 19, 1960 Original

Runtime: 2h 55m