Last night I watched La Dolce Vita for the first time in nearly thirty years. Such a devastating movie. The Steiner plot line crushed me. I’m still thinking about it 24 hours later. The dissolution of Marcello (played by Marcello Mastroianni), pictured above, is obviously the main story. He is such a tragic figure, losing his grip on any sort of meaning in life as he wanders the streets of Rome. Fellini is a fantastic director. This 1960 film feels as current as anything made today. I found a free version on YouTube, fully restored with good subtitling. A startling movie 64 years ago, still startling today.
