La Docle Vita | schedule
In one of his most famous performances, iconic Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni gives a stunning performance as Marcello Rubini, a playboy and news reporter covering high society in the new, modern world of post-war Rome. During seven days and seven nights, Marcello is pushed through a string of devastating encounters with movie stars, heiresses and intellectuals, finding himself caught between a world of bizarre, vapid decadence and his own desire for a meaningful life. Through this weeklong odyssey into a world of sex, parties and spiritual emptiness, the film produces its notoriously controversial and delicately subtle criticism of the moral uncertainty of the modern world.
Scored by Nino Rota and featuring superb supporting performances by Anouk Aimée and Anita Ekberg, La Dolce Vita is a cornerstone of Fellini’s celebrated career as a filmmaker and, having won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960, the film is often considered a watershed moment in the advancement of film as art form. Critic, poet and filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, exclaimed that La Dolce Vita is too important to be discussed as one would normally discuss a film, suggesting that Fellini has through it managed to transform the cinema into a profound, personal art form.
A swan song to a disappearing culture, a criticism of modern, consumer society and an argument for progressive, meaningful future for Italy, La Dolce Vita is the second film in Cinematheque Waterloo’s current series “The Sweet Life: Summer with Fellini.” One of the most important directors of the heyday of European art cinema, Fellini’s films explore crucial issues of religion, family, art and modernity and consistently challenge audiences to consider how meaningful experiences can be found within an ever-changing world. Considered one of the first of the auteur directors, Fellini’s lasting influence has touched filmmakers as diverse as Woody Allen, Tim Burton and David Lynch. -Patrick Faubert
In one of his most famous performances, iconic Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni gives a stunning performance as Marcello Rubini, a playboy and news reporter covering high society in the new, modern world of post-war Rome. During seven days and seven nights, Marcello is pushed through a string of devastating encounters with movie stars, heiresses and intellectuals, finding himself caught between a world of bizarre, vapid decadence and his own desire for a meaningful life. Through this weeklong odyssey into a world of sex, parties and spiritual emptiness, the film produces its notoriously controversial and delicately subtle criticism of the moral uncertainty of the modern world.
Scored by Nino Rota and featuring superb supporting performances by Anouk Aimée and Anita Ekberg, La Dolce Vita is a cornerstone of Fellini’s celebrated career as a filmmaker and, having won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960, the film is often considered a watershed moment in the advancement of film as art form. Critic, poet and filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, exclaimed that La Dolce Vita is too important to be discussed as one would normally discuss a film, suggesting that Fellini has through it managed to transform the cinema into a profound, personal art form.
A swan song to a disappearing culture, a criticism of modern, consumer society and an argument for progressive, meaningful future for Italy, La Dolce Vita is the second film in Cinematheque Waterloo’s current series “The Sweet Life: Summer with Fellini.” One of the most important directors of the heyday of European art cinema, Fellini’s films explore crucial issues of religion, family, art and modernity and consistently challenge audiences to consider how meaningful experiences can be found within an ever-changing world. Considered one of the first of the auteur directors, Fellini’s lasting influence has touched filmmakers as diverse as Woody Allen, Tim Burton and David Lynch. -Patrick Faubert