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LA DOLCE VITA/BD [Blu-ray]
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August 12, 2014 "Please retry" | Special | 1 |
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Genre | Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Widescreen |
Contributor | Giuseppe Amato, Nadia Gray, Renee Longanni, Anouk Aimée, Mario Conocchia, Audrey McDonald, Annibale Ninchi, Alain Dijon, Alfredo Rizzo, Ida Galli, Leonardo Botta, Leo Coleman, Umberto Orsini, Angelo Rizzoli, Walter Santesso, Anita Ekberg, Valeria Ciangottini, Mino Doro, Archie Savage, Enrico Glori, Lex Barker, Cesarino Miceli Picardi, Marcello Mastroianni, Harriet White, Jacques Sernas, Adriano Celentano, Yvonne Furneaux, Alan Dijon, Riccardo Garrone, Federico Fellini, Polidor, Enzo Cerusico, Magali Noël, John Francis Lane, Laura Betti, Franca Pasut, Alain Cuny See more |
Language | Italian |
Runtime | 1 hour and 46 minutes |
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From the manufacturer
The ultimate Fellini phenomenon
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini 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 (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.
Special Edition Features
- 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation
- Interview with the assistant director
- Archival interviews with Fellini and Mastroianni
- Ephemera from the collection of Don Young
- And more
Product Description
A tabloid reporter joins the decadent idle rich in Rome. Directed by Federico Fellini.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : CRRN2407BR
- Director : Federico Fellini
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 46 minutes
- Release date : August 12, 2014
- Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Dijon, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Audrey McDonald
- Subtitles: : English
- Producers : Angelo Rizzoli, Giuseppe Amato
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B00LUSUWB8
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #89,940 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #6,362 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Marcello, a gossip columnist, works the upper society creating stories built on rumors supported by pictures taken by his friend and photographer, Paparazzo. A side note is that Paparazzo's name is the origin for the name of paparazzi that now stalks the famed and fortuned. Marcello's job has driven him to a soul search as he finds himself short of qualitative accomplishments and good deeds, which leads him in some sort of despair. The despair is augmented through Marcello's work that provides several opportunities to act upon his sinful desires. Marcello is led into a continuous negative cycle, as he does something good that is shortly followed by a sinful act. This is how Marcello searches for a meaning to his existence as it becomes painfully evident that he searches in all the wrong places as his desires leads him astray.
At home Marcello has a heartbroken and suicidal fiancé that needs his love, but never fully receives it as he desires other beautiful women such as the voluptuous starlet Sylvia (Anita Ekberg) and the aristocratic beauty Maddalena (Anouk Aimée). Despite his desire for other women Marcello longs for the strong connection of a family as he envies his friend Steiner (Alain Cuny) and his seemingly perfect family. Marcello tries to seek redemption to his wrongdoings by nurturing his fiancé, yet restlessly he wonders what he might be missing. This leads him to continue to search for something to silence his internal desires, which seem infinite.
Fellini displays his artistic brilliance as he displays Marcello's lost character through strong allegorical connotation with several different themes such as Catholic values, greed, desire, and existentialism. These themes are essential to the story as they reflect the identity of Marcello who, in essence, does not understand himself as he attempts to find an answer to life. Thus, Marcello's own confusion of self reflects his own dimwitted search for a meaning to his own life in places other than himself.
Fellini directed a brilliant film with much to ponder and contemplate as most shots leave most of the story for the audience to reflect upon. For example, most scenes are left open ended such as when Marcello stays in a prostitute's apartment with Maddalena behind closed doors. The audience wants to think they know what happened, but they will never really know what happened behind the closed doors. The brilliance of La Dolce Vita lays in the clarity in which Fellini describes the ambiguous as the complete interpretation of the film is left to the audience. The result of the cinematic experience is an artistic experience that encourages thought and reflection upon life and self, which is nothing but brilliant.
I am not sure why I ordered it, because it uses the same mastering as the prior Criterion release, and it is minus the extras that come on that disc. The introduction by Martin Scorsese is nice but does not make a substitution of equal value. Prepared to berate myself for wasting money, I popped the disc in and found that the audio metrics were improved (important for Nino Rota's soundtrack) and that new Italian subtitles were now available. The option of subtitles in the same language is important to me, because, as a philologist I mainly watch foreign films to appreciate the languages. I am fluent in Italian, but I would rather not strain to hear the dialogue, particularly when it has been dubbed in and does not match how the lips are moving. So, with the picture quality basically identical, the Criterion has extra bonus materials, but the Paramount has improved soundtrack and Italian subtitles. Frankly, I rarely watch bonuses more than once, so the new disc is a big step up for me. Maybe it will be for you as well, if you too love the language of the music and the music of the language. Prima il linguaggio della musica, e poi la musica del linguaggio.
It's a movie I recommend to people trying to get into movies, chiefly aspiring film directors. However, if you identify yourself common audience and just here for a good time, it's too slow, and random to be appreciated. Maybe repeat viewings will make this (ahem) sweeter resulting in a more fulfilling experience...who knows!
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浜辺のラストシーンは今日まで観たどの映画よりも忘れがたく美しい。