Fellini e la dolce vita
Fellini and the sweet life
The morning of the 5th of February 1960, when La dolce vita was released in Italian cinemas Italian, it provoked immediately a scandal.
The film depicted seven episodes in the life of Marcello, a journalist worldly who chased the celebrities through the streets of Rome night at night.
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It was Fellini who invented the word word paparazzo, the name of one of the photographers in the film. The term is now today used in every the world.
The scene most famous of the film is the one in which which Anita Ekberg wades into the Trevi Fountain di Trevi in an evening gown da evening. It is become one of the the images most iconic of the history of cinema.
Fellini wanted to portray an society that had gained prosperity material but lost something of essential: the sense of life.
The film won the Palme d'Or d'Or at Cannes and consecrated Fellini as one of the greatest greatest masters of seventh art.