Item #: 18948DV Category: FELLINI, FEDERICO Format: DVD MPAA Rating: U

Woolly Rating: 9/10 (42 votes)

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DKB	Jun 3, 2005 @ 20:15:30

MORE DULL THAN DOLCE
For such an acclaimed, historically important film, this is one dull mother. Marcello Mastroianni is a society journalist who chronicles the parties and doings of the rich and famous such as foreign movie stars and minor nobility. He hates his job, of course, but what the hay? He meets numerous women in the course of his work and this finally results in a nasty break-up with his jealous regular girlfriend . The final half-hour consists of a drunken near orgy that scandalized early viewers and signaled that gritty Neo-Realism was dead and that Rome was just a sophisticated, silly and shallow as Paris or Hollywood. The title is, of course, ironic: there's nothing sweet about the lives of any of the characters; in fact, the only truly gifted artist in the group commits a shocking crime. Comic relief, of a sort, is provided by the pack of jackel-like photographers who lurk around Mastroianni hoping for a scandelous photo. The chief one is named Paparazzo; guess what such hyenas are called today.

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