Four-Star Films : ‘La Dolce Vita’
The 1960 film that gave the name Fellini a worldwide cachet. Offering a gorgeous panorama of modern Rome at its most alive and hauntingly decadent, the film begins with a plaster statue of Christ, borne through the skies via helicopter to the Vatican, and proceeds through seven frescoes of vice and joyless hedonism, patterned on the seven stages of the Apocalypse. The cast is assembled from the actual jet-set of the time, many playing thinly veiled versions of themselves. The title translates as “The Sweet Life.” With Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimee (pictured) and Anita Ekberg (Bravo Friday at 9 a.m.).
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