Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, and Anita Ekberg as Sylvia, into the Trevi Fountain
You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.

La Dolce Vita is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film about a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.

Directed and co-written by Federico Fellini.
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Marcello Rubini

  • [to Sylvia] You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.
  • [to Emma] A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization!

Steiner

  • Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
  • We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time... detached.

Other

  • Transvestite: By 1965 there'll be total depravity. How squalid everything will be.

Dialogue

Journalist: What do you think you like most in life?
Sylvia: I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.

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Cast

Quotes about

  • I'll ask myself: What is my favorite film? Or I'll skew the question slightly: What film would I most like to see again right now? The answer would not be "Kane." … Right now, this moment, the answer that would spring most quickly to mind is Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960). I've seen it, oh, at least 25 times, maybe more. It doesn't get old for me. Age has not withered, not custom staled, its infinite variety. I've grown so worked up just writing this paragraph that I want to slide in the DVD and start watching immediately. … I might add that it is one of the most visually fluid movies ever made, a movie that approaches music in its rushing passion, not simply because Nino Rota's score is one of the best ever recorded, but because the characters seem to move with music within them (joyful, lustful, exciting, doubtful, sad).


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