La Dolce Vita
It is difficult to imagine a filmmaker like <PERSON> working today. The Italian writer-director preferred to approach his profound and existential themes by making big, commercial, starry productions – a combination of ends and means rarely afforded in today’s increasingly imbalanced cinematic landscape.
La Dolce Vita, arguably his most famous work, is bold and ambitious in its narrative, its making, and its legacy. 464
By choosing to focus on the life of <PERSON> (<PERSON>), a gossip columnist based in Rome, <PERSON> took aim at his own industry. To play these artsy, high society types, <PERSON> populated the film with figures he ironically ended up turning into stars, from <PERSON> himself to <PERSON> and the singer and model <PERSON>. So precise was his understanding of the world of celebrities that everyone involved got to enter it – and that is also why, 60 years later, a restored re-release of La Dolce Vita remains a real event.
Full review for We Love Cinema here. 378