Most films are usually filled with scenes that have some kind of relevance to the plot and the main theme of the film. Unfortunately, La Dolce Vita does not. First off, the good part about the film was that it was ofcourse wonderfully shot. Modern day Rome has never looked better due to the excellent black and white cinematography. It captures the sleaze and the filth of the place like no other since Sweet Smell of Succes did so for New York.The bad part is unfortunately that there is no story to speak of. Halfway in the movie you keep witnessing it going from scene to scene from characters to characters out of nowhere and you wonder how this is at all connected to the main picture? Our main character, Marcello Rubini is ofcourse well played by Marcello Mastroianni, but his character is immoral and selfish and this does not change over the course of the film. He goes to a family, some people seeking ghosts, parties, miracles, spends time with his dad and a lot of other things that are not related in any way. This causes the film to create new characters and abandon just established ones all the time. It just doesn't work. The only reasonably interesting character is probably Steiner, yet unfortunately with his storyline very little is done once again.Some people claim La Dolce Vita has depth. But what kind of depth is there to a series of non related events? I think one needs to have a very big imagination to see any kind of psychological depth in this film, because it didn't have any. Not to mention the obnoxious loud weather noises constantly being a pain to the ears. I am not particularly a big fan of for example Andrei Tarkovsky and his way of filmmaking without any kind of storytelling ( Usually ) yet i can see the depth and the art in his pictures, but in this Fellini flick, it just isn't there, except for the stylish way it was filmed in.In the end it is about a bunch of events that are not related to the main plot and there is just no character development in all these immoral characters whatsoever. Stylish, but devoid of a real story.

Classic of the Classics! Fellini masterfully portrays the post-war Italian high society: full of misunderstandings, dirty and empty world! In addition to criticizing the world of journalists, meaningless, and nominate the celebrity photographers, the paparazzi! A Tough life, nothing Sweet !!

Chronicles a week in the life of philandering journalist Rubini, who devotes his entire existence to hedonistic pleasure.Federico Fellini offers a wonderful dream like film with stunning visuals, it may not be appreciated by the general film buff or the modern movie goer. Its structure is unorthodox, however, it was and still is highly influential. Of course the main reason to watch this is for the famous scene - where Sylvia (Anita Eckberg) gets wet in the Trevi fountain. La Dolce Vita also coined the word 'paparazzi' and a film can rarely can boast such a lasting impact on the world.

"La dolce vita" is a drama movie in which we watch a series of stories in just a week of the life of a paparazzi journalist who lives in Rome and he just wants to find his true place in the world. We also watch him trying to become a successful writer but he has some difficulties no this which he has to surpass in order to succeed on this.I liked this movie because of the plot in which for one more time the direction was the best from Federico Fellini and I can only compare this direction with the direction of 8 ½. In which I believe the direction of Federico Fellini was equally good. I also liked this movie because of the great interpretation of Marcello Mastroianni who played as Marcello Rubini and he was simply outstanding for one more time as I expected from him to be. Another interpretation that I liked was the beautiful's Anita Ekberg's who played as Sylvia.Finally I have to say that "La dolce vita" is maybe a different kind of movie from this that you are used to watch but it is really worth seeing. If you liked the 8 ½ movie then I am sure that you are going to love this one.