La Dolce Vita (1960)

The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La Dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini (8½) 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 - played by a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni (8½) - during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.

This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of the European 1960s, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip - and fame-obsessed our society would become.

La Dolce Vita is given the Criterion treatment and released on 18th October 2021 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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