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GARY: At last, LA DOLCE VITA has come to Boston. Perhaps the most exciting film to come from post-war Italy, Doice is an angry and moving indictment of the continent's rotting aristocracy; and it's also a remarkably beautiful film. This is no movie to be missed...
...Dolce Vita (Fellini; Astor) is ambitious, sensational and controversial. Acclaimed in Europe as "the greatest Italian film ever made," it has also cooked up Italy's sizzlingest scandal since the lurid Wilma Montesi case. L'Osservatore Romano has damned it as "indecent" and "sacrilegious"; Communists have hailed it as an "unmasking of corrupt bourgeois society...
...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...
...finest hour? Humbug, all humbug, says Menen in effect. As he sees it, ancient Rome's writers and pseudo sages produced a kind of corporate image of what the Romans wanted to be like, and subsequent historians have simply perpetuated it. Then as now, he implies, la dolce vita, the sweet life of lavish and cynical corruption, was close to the heart of Roman reality...
Cannes, the fun-and-gamiest of film festivals, ended last week with Italy's La Dolce Vita as the unanimous choice for the Golden Palm first prize. 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...