Filmmaker Focus: Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) + Post-Film Discussion
The world’s most talked about movie today!
Federico Fellini
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become. This screening and presentation provided in partnership with the Italian American Heritage Society.
There will be a pre screening lecture and a post screening discussion hosted by film scholar Kate Burney.