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GARY: La Dolce Vita. Federico Fellini's masterpiece exposes the decadent uppercrust that haunts Romo's Via Veneto, Spectacular photograph and unnumbered orgies spot-light a memorable if not continually absorbing expose...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's vast (three hours) dramatization of the Apocalypse as a modern saturnalia wallows in boredom, but also develops episodes of transcendent moral horror...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's vast (three hours) dramatization of the Apocalypse as a modern saturnalia wallows in boredom, but also develops episodes of transcendent moral horror...
...What a Mess!" The merits of this depressing allegory are many. In conception it is noble and profound, and its visualization of the principal symbols-particularly the apparitions of Christ and antichrist -is stunning. Fellini may be pardoned for believing that "La Dolce Vita is my greatest work." Nonetheless, he is wrong. For all its vitality, the film is decadent, an artistic failure. The creator thinks the film "puts a thermometer to a sick world," but it may be that he has simply taken his own temperature...
...good deal of the picture is out-and-out sensationalism, smeared on with a heavy hand to attract the insects; and Fellini's selection of café society as a central symbol of evil is vulgar and naive...