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...name coined by Movie Director Federico Fellini for a freelance photographer in La Dolce Vita, his gamy study of Roman, cafe society. "Paparazzo," says Fellini, "suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging...
...Starring Anita Ekberg and dealing aimlessly with the sensual corruption of modern titled Italians-from the Via Veneto's sophisticated sodomists to the industrialist's young daughter whose idea of let's-go-slumming is to make love in the chambers of a prostitute-Director Federico Fellini's film has already provoked a church furor in Italy. In Cannes last week, it also set the tone of the whole festival. In reversal of tradition, there was little obvious sex among the spectators and publicity-minded starlets this year, but there was so much on the screen...
Most ominous shift in the tide of battle came not long ago when Director Federico (La Strada) Fellini shot a long sequence for his new film La Dolce Vita in front of the Café de Paris. Last year he would have used Doney's for his background. But the management of Caffé Doney is not panicking. Surveying his tourist-crowded tables last week, a Doney manager said disdainfully: "When people ask us where the Café de Paris is, we tell them...
...talent Giulietta Massina evinced in La Strada--her ability to switch quickly among three or four strong and simple emotions--suits her perfectly for this role, in which she must switch only from outside prostitute to inside virgin. In the best sentimental Italian manner, director Federico Fellini selects the most poignant situations and evokes from his actress the response of wistfulness devastated, time and again...
...wearisome. This is pointed up by the brief appearance of the tightrope walker, who is gloriously articulate. La Strada takes on its fullest life when he is onscreen. He is like a nimble, lively Orpheus in a hell of groping and grunting, and Richard Basehart plays him brilliantly. Signor Fellini has created one character of un-crippled humanity, and for a few scenes has matter worthy of the scrupulous authority of his manner...