Alain Cuny

La Dolce Vita -- 'One of the most influential and popular works by Federico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA follows the 'sweet life' of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) who covers the glitzy show business life in Rome.

Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) is a journalist in Rome during the 1950s who covers tabloid news of movie stars, religious visions and the self-indulgent aristocracy. The story depicts Marcello's life, the ease, indecision and frequency with which he gets distracted by women. It has the following distinct episodes. If the evenings of each episode were joined with the morning of the respective preceding episode together as a day, they would form seven consecutive days, which may not necessarily be the case.

Two friends in ancient Rome -- Encolpio (Martin Potter ) and Ascilto (Hiram Keller) -- fight over custody of the young Gitone (Max Born). Gitone ultimately chooses to live with Ascilito, throwing Econlipo's life into turmoil. But years later, when Encolpio reunites with Gitone, the two men plot to kidnap a demi-god and incur the wrath of the gods. Legendary auteur Federico Fellini directs this stylish search for redemption.

'One of the most influential and popular works by Federico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA follows the "sweet life" of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) who covers the glitzy show business life in Rome.

A gossip columnist longs to write more serious literature but resigns himself to producing the meaningless fluff desired by his decadent fellow Romans in this classic.

In Federico Fellini's seminal film LA DOLCE VITA, a three-hour masterpiece that shows one man's descent into 'the sweet life' of debauchery, Marcello Mastroianni stars as eccentric journalist Marcello Rubini. On assignment to chronicle the lives of the rich and famous Italian aristocracy in a gossip column for a Roman newspaper, Marcello floats from one fabulous party to the next, meeting all varieties of beautiful, extravagant people. While he would never protest this seemingly ideal job, it makes him feel lonely and empty, and he stays up drinking and dancing night after night only to wake up each morning unbalanced and unfocused. The film follows Marcello's ups and downs in an episodic pattern in which each evening is a new story, a new adventure, a new dare, a new woman with whom to fall helplessly in love--but only for that night. Each morning the slate is wiped clean, and Fellini resets Marcello's score to zero. Sprinkled with religious images and gestures at salvation, LA DOLCE VITA is supreme in the beauty of its all-encompassing symbolism that is expressed through lavish sets, an alluring script, overemphasized physical movements, roller-coaster jazz music, and helpless emotions.