60 years ago La Dolce Vita, an iconic film made in Italy

(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 02 - A masterpiece film, source of inspiration for the years to come (The great beauty of PaoloSorrentino, the most recent tribute), and an icon of Made in Italy, almost a brand: you say La dolce vita and think of Italy, of Anita Ekberg 'Marcello come here' in the Fontana di Trevi, of Mastroianni indolent and beautiful. And the world thinks it. Federico Fellini's film, which won the Palmad'oro at the Cannes festival, Oscar for costumes (PieroGherardi) and dozens of other international awards, turns 60 years and as many of cultural influence. It is included in all the classifications of films in the history of world cinema and, despite negative critical acceptance, requests for ecclesiastical censorship, a ban on minors under the age of 16 is the sixth most viewed film in Italy from 1950 to today: only in the year of release they saw 13 million 600 thousand people.
At the Fiamma cinema in Rome (sadly closed today) in the night on 2 and 3 February 1960 there was a preview and on 5 February at the Capitol in Milan, before going out to the theater: the whistles covered the sound of applause.
The protagonist of the film is Rome, the one between the 50s and 60s where Marcello (Mastroianni) moves, a journalist who deals with gossip and scandals, but whipped in his ambition to become a writer, attracted by the good life, by the aristocracy and by beautiful women like the restless aristocratic Magdalene (Anouk Aimee).
Thinking back 60 years later, beyond cult scenes, of the whole imaginary that brought with it neologisms (paparazzo, for example, inspired by Tazio Secchiaroli) ilvisionario Fellini anticipated a very current era of news and mix of chronicles and gossip journalism boundaries, as well as the crisis of the social and cultural elections of which the director signs decadent aristocratic rituals bordering on the pathetic. (HANDLE).