La Dolce Vita

Fellini's cinematic epic about the luxurious life that does not save the powerful from depression and emptiness.

Rome, nighttime streets, lavish parties, and the glitz of paparazzi. Marcello, a journalist from "Playboy," is both an observer and a direct participant in all episodes of the Italian elite's life in the late 1950s. Women come and go without touching his feelings. Marcello squanders his life, getting lost in the midst of desperate revelry, hoping that at some point, the fun will push away the despair. *La Dolce Vita* is a hypnotic ball, a labyrinth of temptations where everything seems like theater—especially reality.