La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini · 1960 CE · Film · Italian · Contemporary

Marcello, a gossip columnist in Rome, moves through seven nights and their mornings: a film star in a fountain, a miracle staged for the press, an aristocratic party, a fiancée at home, a friend whose settled life he envies. He keeps meaning to write something serious and keeps taking the next assignment. A sweet life as slow drowning.

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• parallels ↑ The Divine Comedy
  Dante · c. 1320 CE · Poem
• ↓ 8½
  Federico Fellini · 1963 CE · Film — continues this

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