A beautiful and wealthy heiress, Maddalena is tired of Rome, while Marcello finds it suits him. He then shrugs and continues following the statue to Saint Peter's Square.ġst Night Sequence: Marcello meets Maddalena by chance in an exclusive nightclub. Hovering above, Marcello uses gestures to elicit phone numbers from them but fails in his attempt.

The news helicopter is momentarily sidetracked by a group of bikini-clad women sunbathing on the rooftop of a high-rise apartment building. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that 'have changed the collective memory of the country between 19.' Plot Prologue ġst Day Sequence: A helicopter transports a statue of Christ over an ancient Roman aqueduct outside Rome while a second, Marcello Rubini's news helicopter, follows it into the city.

Its success proved a watershed moment for Italian cinema and European cinema-at-large, and it has come to be regarded as a masterpiece of Italian cinema and one of the greatest films of all time. It was nominated for three more Oscars, including Best Director for Federico Fellini, and Best Original Screenplay. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Costumes. Released in Italy on 5 February 1960, La Dolce Vita was both a critical success and worldwide commercial hit, despite censorship in some regions.

The screenplay, written by Fellini and three other screenwriters, can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, a tabloid journalist who, over seven days and nights, journeys through the 'sweet life' of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. La Dolce Vita ( Italian pronunciation: Italian for 'the sweet life' or 'the good life' ) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini.

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