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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 9781417200221
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Collector's Edition, DVD, Enhanced, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1417200227
Label: Koch Lorber Films
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1ItalianOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Koch Lorber Films
MPN: KCHDKLF3012D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Koch Lorber Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Running Time: 174 minutes
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Theatrical Release Date: April 19, 1961
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At three brief hours, La Dolce Vita, a piece of cynical, engrossing social commentary, stands as Federico Fellini's timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini (extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni) is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence. A man of paradoxical emotional juxtapositions (cool but tortured, sexy but impotent), he dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticizes finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in an ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically, with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, The Sweet Life), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties, or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, are merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this "sweet" life. --Dave McCoy
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Rating:  -
Warning! -- Avoid this edition. The subtitles are hideous, yellow, and intrusive. They are laid over the picture and absolutely ruin the image. I know there is a letterbox edition where the subtitles are white and appear below the picture. Find and purchase that edition, not this one!
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I NEVER let boredom get in the way, and always watch a picture til its end. I had to take a nap in the middle of this one.
It's one of the most unbearable, boring films I have EVER watch, and I've seen a few (10 in the last week). Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" was pure fun and action in comparison!!!
Once it was over, I saved the case and threw the movie away. There's not plenty of room in my house...
Rating:  -
I never get tired of watching this film. It's like a dream. Makes me dream some more.
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This is one three-hour film that needs its entire running time to make its point. I have to confess that, with the sole exception of Nights of Cabriria, I am not a big Fellini fan, so I approached this film with some misgivings. And the first hour, which includes some dreadful parodies of American movie stars and British journalists speaking very wooden English, begins to feel excruciating. It's this first hour, too, that plays into all the "Felliniesque" cliches, with the big-busted Anita Ekberg ... Read More
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The film is fascinating, and the remastering and restoration excellent. What a shame, then, that Mr. Schickel's commentary is so persistently banal, doing little more (when it's accurate) than stating the obvious. The film deserves a much more distinguished critique than this.
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