POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! in compliance with the Victorian state government’s lockdown of the Melbourne metropolitan area from 8th July to curtail the spread of Covid-19, the Fellini Retrospective will be rescheduled to later in the year.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great master of Italian cinema.
“La dolce vita” is the third film presented within the Fellini retrospective organized by Classic Cinemas and promoted by the IIC Melbourne in collaboraton with the IIC Sydney. The film will be screening at the Classic Cinemas Elsternwick to an audience.
The IIC Melbourne has invited Elisabetta Ferrari (Lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Melbourne) to introduce every film in the program.
Enjoy Fellini’s magic at the Classic Cinemas Elsternwick!
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Plot: The movie depicts seven days (and nights) in the life of a Marcello Rubini, a Roman journalist writing for gossip magazines torn between making something serious of his life or drifting along on a pleasant if empty stream of casual affairs and profitable, but meaningless, newspaper and magazine work. In the course of the week, he flirts with a visiting movie star, has a couple of encounters with a bored socialite, one of them in a prostitute’s bedroom, is shocked when Steiner, a “serious” writer and deep thinker kills himself and his children, and generally ignores his adoring girlfriend. In the end, he seems to have cut himself adrift on a sea of frivolity and self-disgust, with no real idea of how to find his way “home” again.
“La Dolce Vita” won the Palm d’Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes and remains one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time.
To book: https://www.classiccinemas.com.au/festivals/fellini-retrospective-310