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La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 9781417200221
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Collector's Edition, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1417200227
Label: Koch Lorber Films
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Koch Lorber Films
MPN: KCHDKLF3012D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Koch Lorber Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Running Time: 174 minutes
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Theatrical Release Date: April 19, 1961
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Koch International Release Date: 09/21/2004 Run time: 167 minutes Rating: Nr
At three brief hours, La Dolce Vita, a piece of cynical, engrossing social commentary, stands as Federico Fellini's timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini (extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni) is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence. A man of paradoxical emotional juxtapositions (cool but tortured, sexy but impotent), he dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticizes finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in an ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically, with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, The Sweet Life), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties, or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, are merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this "sweet" life. --Dave McCoy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fellini's voice
La Dolce Vita is a travelogue of one man's singular and unique experience. Fellini spares us the familiar arc and keeps the journey in a steady rhythm. There has never been a film before it that has captured tragedy, comedy, music, philosophy, romance, and social commentary in such a naturalistic style, yet it could not have been done without flawless preparation. Every scene has been one way or another an influence in cinema ever since.
Rating:  - its good to be a king
I always been against old movies as they demonstrate freedom of speech didnt start till 21 century but I manage to watch this opus.
Short resume is--its good to be a king--when you dont have to worry about bread for today and tomorrow you start making nonsense called La Dolche Vita.
Rating: - Titanic film
La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), as ironic a title as has ever been used in motion picture history, Federico Fellini's 1960 film commentary on modern hedonism and anomy, and filmed in 1959 in Rome, may just be the best film in his canon, for it combines the Neo-Realism of earlier classics like La Strada and Nights Of Cabiria, while admixing some of the surreal touches of his later classics. Plus, it is the best written and most ambitious of his films. In many ways, its lead star, Marcello Mastroianni, ... Read More
Rating:  - Possibly one of the most boring of all classic films
A staple of "Best of" guides, beloved by critics, a huge success on its release and...one of the most boring films you will ever see.
Self-indulgent and gargantuan in length, you will be left wondering what all the fuss is about - and why Fellini is so over-rated.
Rating: - Three hours wasted
I wasted three hours of my birthday watching this film, having read time and again what a masterpiece it was. Well, it isn't.
How was I supposed to relate to any of the self-absorbed and superficial characters? If this is supposed to be a social polemic or some kind of lifestyle study, I'm damned if I could figure out what mattered in any scene. Jesus, I was so bored. When Anita Ekberg put the cat on her head near the Trevi fountain, I hoped that the feline would embed its claws in her peroxide. ... Read More
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