Sylvia's natural sensuality triggers raucous partying while Robert, her bored fiancé, draws caricatures and reads a newspaper. Peter's Square.Ģnd Night Sequence: That evening, the infatuated Marcello dances with Sylvia in the Baths of Caracalla. Inspired, Marcello maneuvers forward to be alone with her when they finally reach the balcony overlooking St. Inside St Peter's dome, a news reporter complains that Sylvia is "an elevator" because none of them can match her energetic climb up the numerous flights of stairs. To Sylvia's producer, Marcello casually recommends that Sylvia be taken on a tour of St Peter's.
After the film star confidently replies to the barrage of journalists' questions, her boyfriend Robert ( Lex Barker) enters the room late and drunk. While waiting frantically for her recovery, however, he tries to make a phone call to Maddalena.Ģnd Day Sequence: That day, he goes on assignment for the arrival of Sylvia, a famous Swedish-American actress, at Ciampino airport where she is met by a horde of news reporters.ĭuring Sylvia's press conference, Marcello calls home to ensure Emma has taken her medication while reassuring her that he is not alone with Sylvia. On the way to the hospital, he declares his everlasting love to her and again as she lies in a semiconscious state in the emergency room. They make love in the bedroom of a prostitute to whom they had given a ride home in Maddalena's Cadillac.ġst Dawn Sequence: Marcello returns to his apartment at dawn to find that his fiancée, Emma, has overdosed. A beautiful and wealthy heiress, Maddalena is tired of Rome and constantly in search of new sensations while Marcello finds Rome suits him as a jungle he can hide in. Hovering above, Marcello uses gestures to elicit phone numbers from them but fails in his attempt, then shrugs and continues following the statue to Saint Peter's Square.ġst Night Sequence: Marcello meets Maddalena by chance in an exclusive nightclub. The news helicopter is momentarily sidetracked by a group of bikini-clad women sunbathing on the rooftop of a high-rise apartment building. Prologue Ī helicopter transports a statue of Christ over an ancient Roman aqueduct outside Rome while a second, Marcello Rubini's news helicopter, follows it into the city. 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. īy the most common interpretation of the storyline, the film can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue (see also Structure, below). The film was a worldwide box-office success and a critical success, and is now frequently regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema. It was nominated for three more Academy Awards, including Best Director for Federico Fellini. La dolce vita won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes. The screenplay, co-written by Fellini and three other screenwriters, can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. La dolce vita ( Italian pronunciation: Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life" ) is a 1960 comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, and Anouk Aimée.
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