La Dolce Vita (100 anni di Mastroianni)

La Dolce Vita

Italie-France 1960 | Federico Fellini | vostFR | 174’ | 35mm | Cast : Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée

> Palme d’or, Festival de Cannes 1960

> Best Costume Design, Oscars 1962

Mastroianni incarne un chroniqueur désabusé dans un journal à sensations, honteux de la superficialité de sa profession mais trop faible pour se soustraire aux tentations nocturnes qu'elle offre : alcool, femmes faciles et plaisirs exotiques.

« All that we think we want, we don’t know and can’t control. The dark circus of life, the visual power. Moral force, savage indictment. Intoxicating on every level. » (The Criterion Collection.)

« The hero is a gossip columnist, Marcello, who chronicles the sweet life of fading aristocrats, second-rate movie stars, aging playboys and women of commerce. The role was played by Marcello Mastroianni, and now that his life has ended we can see that it was his most representative. The two Marcellos – character and actor – flowed together into a handsome, weary, desperate man, who dreams of someday doing something good, but is trapped in a life of empty nights and lonely dawns. » (Roger Ebert)