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‘La dolce vita’, by Fellini, and the tragic end of Anita Ekberg

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I was born on January 20, 1920.

There are a handful of filmmakers who have earned the right

to which its name of place to an adjective,

Federico Fellini is one of them,

for movies like the one we offer you today.

“La dolce vita”, mythical title

that supposes the subtle border, but border,

between the previous cinema of the filmmaker,

more identifiable with a very personal neorealism,

and the later, equally personal, but different, inimitable,

unique, symbolist, one might say,

although it would be a very restrictive term,

“La dolce vita” drinks from both worlds.

Let’s say it’s a kind of continuation of “The Useless”.

Moraldo goes to the city,

becomes quite an important journalist,

has made a career.

The film is a kind of storytelling

of his journalistic adventures and his private life

in a Rome, in this Rome that we have known in these last 3 or 4 years.

Here in this crazy kind of blast

in all directions.

Shot in 1960, the film immediately went down in history

for some other question,

that it had nothing to do with his very valuable cinematographic values.

At the oficial periodical of the Vatican, L’Osservatore Romano,

It seemed obscene to him, so it was not released in many countries,

In Spain, without going any further, we had to wait until 1980.

Hello Federico, we see that there is a man at the fountain.

-Do you know who it is? -Yes.

-The cold that the poor man will be experiencing.

We are going to shoot a scene with Anita Ekberg,

which is one of the protagonists of the movie that I’m shooting,

“The sweet life”.

On the scene, the American actress enraptured by the beauty of Rome

discover the Trevi Fountain,

and during a walk, he decides to take a bath.

-¡Marcello, come here!

With Marcello Mastroianni y Anita Ekberg,

that they left for history

one of the most famous scenes in film history,

whose filming was recreated years later by Ettore Scola

in “We had loved each other so much.”

(THEY SPEAK IN ITALIAN)

In “La dolce vita”, Fellini renounced a structure

that could be considered conventional,

to offer us a series of paintings throughout the days and nights in Rome,

in a Via Veneto, which was recreated in studio.

Yes, Via Veneto is like the heart of the movie.

Most, most of the scenes take place on Via Veneto

because the protagonist, Marcello, is a journalist

And it has the address of the newspaper just above the Café de Paris.

Because in Via Veneto there is the possibility

to meet everyone, both Roman and cosmopolitan,

that congregate in all these cafes on Via Veneto.

Giuseppe Amato put at my disposal the largest set of Cinecittà,

and ordered a reconstruction to be made, which as you can see,

It has nothing to envy to the Via Veneto that we all know.

And the truth is that here I have been able to roll

as if I was really on the street,

with the difference that all this is a set.

The architect has done a good job.

The film can be divided into a prologue and 7 main episodes

divided by an intermission and an epilogue,

which is an ending full of suggestions.

With some characters wandering before us,

reflecting in a worldly way, sometimes in a deep way, other times,

no matter who.

What are you waiting for to close this joint? It sucks.

Besides Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in “La dolce vita”,

there are Anouk Aimée and Alain Cuny as “Steiner”, Marcello’s friend,

to whom in an unexpected moment makes a surprising revelation.

Don’t think that salvation is found in a home.

Don’t do like me, Marcello.

-¡Marcello!

Oscar winner for “best costume design”,

and nominated for “best direction, script and artistic direction”,

“La dolce vita”, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival

from that 1960, where it premiered,

he left for history, for example, the term “paparazzi”.

Paparazzo! We go with my father.

-Where?

In addition to leaving us a very young Adriano Celentano,

making rockin ‘gurgles before he got famous,

and a nod to the Tarzan who was Lex Barker.

Well, has he not played Tarzan?

“La dolce vita” is almost 60 years old,

yet he remains eternally young.

You can check it below, here in La 2.

Subtitled by Victoria Sánchez Mayo

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