La Dolce Vita (1961) (Criterion Collection) UK Only [Blu-ray] [2021]

Unquestionably a great film and with its picaresque non-linear structure tremendously influential. It's also surprisingly watchable as Mastroianni's character gradually descends from disillusionment to near insanity. The latter sequences seem to foreshadow the psychedelic masterpieces of later in the decade,helped perhaps by the appearance in a small role of a very young Nico ( later associated with Warhol and The Velvet Underground )

I like everything in this movie, because it's a masterpiece from the most popular filmmaker of all time. Fellini gives us a critique of the culture of stardom, a look of the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous. Magnificent.

Being the third time ive seen this we're reminded of legacy glass and frame composition and art direction 3 of his favourite attributes commonly used in combination to bring a timeless style to life. Taking the score into consideration in most of his works meant overtime. Such dedication.

Unusual film but was intrigued to watch it.

Well, watched this ‘great’ film.... boring, and waaaaay too long.Overatted pap.

Well, if you are a child of the sixties and a student of the film then you cannot be but knocked out by this movie. It defined everything that was cool at that time. We all (male that is)wanted to be Marcello M and the symbolism was almost too much to bear. The sexuality was understated but because of that was so intense. Some films and books change your life -this is in that category.

A stylishly delivered scrutiny of a charming journalist and the world he lives and reports in. This film hold him and cafe society to account in a timeless and ever-relevant classic.

Timeless masterpiece of a film, and from the same beautiful 4K restoration as on the Criterion Collection, however the disc itself is a regular 1080p Blu Ray. It doesn't exist yet on the 4K Blu Ray format, so don't be tricked into purchasing this edition if that's what you're looking for.

Esta es, sin la menor duda, una verdadera obra maestra del maestro Federico Fellini. Ya la he visto varias veces, la primera vez fue en Santiago de Chile, poco después de haberse estrenado, y la última vez hace unos días en el blu-ray que les compre a ustedes

This is a classic and all movie fans should have this movie in their library. The film has been optimized in BlueRay and work well.

GUCCIが出資した「山猫」などと同じくマーティンスコセッシ率いるFILM FOUNDATIONによる修復で、Blu-rayの画質は4Kテレビで観ても鮮明です。浜辺のラストシーンは今日まで観たどの映画よりも忘れがたく美しい。

una buena compra por ser un clásico del cine por a buen precio, si te gusta ver cine lo recomiendo

Well... the only thing I am not happy about is that I bought the 2-disc version 6 months ago... and now this!!! But anyway... in this era of new-editions-that-just-keep-on-coming-down (LOL) we all should be used to that by now. But basically, this is the same 2-disc edition with a 3rd disc containing extras that will not make me pop up my wallet (mainly because I got european and brazilian Fellini DVDs where I already have those added extras).But still it's great to know that such an important film like La Dolce Vita is getting a 3-disc treatment. I and very very very happy to know the DVD industry does care about the good films... the ones that really matter.This is one of the best and most important films ever made in film history by a director whose (I am sure) command of his art puts him easily at the same level as Hitchcock, Ford, Kurosawa and two or three others.ROME, 1959.The war is a thing of the past. Rome is now a bright city full of stylish, vain, beautiful, rich people parading around exotic nightclubs, private parties and hot spots. The Via Veneto is the place to be seen while driving a big american car. While the moon is high, morals are ... well... low.Marcello (Mastroiani) is a journalist who earns his living writing about the beautiful people. He goes where they go... and boy, how do they go!!! . He knows everybody... and everybody knows him. He may be just a guy earning a living... but he is there in the high life with the ones he write about: rich lonely women starving for sexual adventures, internatonal starlets with nothing to say and big apetite for wild parties, cheated husbands, princes, expensive prostitutes... you name it. He knows them all!But deep down, Marcello is frustrated and unfulfilled. His ambitions of being respected, of having a meaningful job, of leaving that shallow circle are constantly being destroyed by circumstances he cannot control.He is the perfect example of a character unable to make a stand and take control of his own life. For every effort he makes there's always the constant set back to the fact that he is just a stupid, cheap, selfish journalist covering stories that are only meaninful to those he write about... for a day or two.AND YET... it is all there: a woman who loves him, the old dream of writing a book, family and roots to be rediscovered, the understanding of the need to make a change of life... but he is too blind to see (or maybe he is too deep to jump out of that Dolce Vita).And every day is the same... parties, scandals, fights and sex. And just when Marcello starts to believe the change is possible... an old friend (someone who was his model of integrity and moral virtues - values Marcello dreamt for himself) murders his own family and commits suicide. ...The incomprehensible caos of life blows everything into a meaninglessness....And that is too much to take. From then on... it's straight downward for Marcello who looses all his faith in truth, morality, hope and change. He allows himself to become a portrait of all the things he wanted to run away from.THIS IS ONE OF the most fascinating portraits ever put on celluloid. Everything is right in this masterpiece. The performers are top-notch with Marcello Mastroiani, Anouk Aimee, Anita Ekberg, Yvonne Furneaux, Alain Cuny, Nico and Lex Barker.Wardrobe (Oscar winner) and art direction by Piero Gherardi, cinematography by Otello Martelli, and music score by the legendary Nino Rota are more than perfect... and remind us about the few films who are lucky enough to have so many gifted professionals in peak form.The screenplay of La Dolce Vita is a masterclass in modern Cinema. The whole film is composed of episodes in the life of Marcello. Every episode follows a similar pattern: it starts as a promissing evening... develops Marcello's part in "the game"... add a sweet taste of a possible redemption (through love or honesty or truth)... goes on all night long......and ends up by dawn with a bitter unexpected negative twist of fate, exposing the lies, disonesty, unsensitivity, coldness, humiliation, detatchment, death and all the evil that goes with Marcello's high life (and that's what makes the film title such a lesson in irony... the sweet life).That's how it is written: several episodes, each comprising about 15 hours in the beautiful/horrible life of Marcello - a man whose biggest enemy ends up being himself.One cannot say enough about the quality of La Dolce Vita and its importance to modern Cinema. The film remains today as it always was... an unsurpassed flawless gem that begs for a mature viewer... someone who can comprehend all its richness and detail... the wisdom and the irony. A viewer whose arms are big enough to get the whole thing... the whole film.Certainly it may feel difficult to follow for some viewers... but I think with a film like this... the problem lies with the viewer's ability to read all that's there. Like any great work of art, La Dolce Vita demands time and a close look. IT IS ALL THERE!!! See it once, see it twice. A film like this comes once in a hundred years (next may be in 2060 - laughs!).AND NOW IN A 3-DISC EDITION!!!!!!!beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Fellini!We miss him so much!