LA DOLCE VITA (EUFF VIET NAM 2026)
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LA DOLCE VITA <CURATED BY TRAN ANH HUNG>
Italy, France — 174’ — 1960
Director: Federico Fellini
Writers: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée
Cinematography: Otello Martelli
Music: Nino Rota
Keywords: Psychological, Existentialist
Age rating: T16
19:30 — 25.11.2026 — National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, Hanoi <post-screening Q&A with Tran Anh Hung>
19:30 — 07.12.2026 — Galaxy Cinema, 116 Nguyen Du, HCMC
19:30 — 05.12.2026 — Metiz Cinema, Helio Center, 2/9 Road, Da Nang
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An allegory of ‘the sweetness of life’, the film follows the journalist Marcello as he drifts through the romances and high-society soirées of glamorous Rome. With a cinematic style that blends realism and fantasy, Federico Fellini gradually strips away the veneer of opulence to reveal the loneliness and emptiness of modern existence. Caught between the sacred and the profane, art and fame, desire and love, Marcello embodies an era ceaselessly searching for meaning yet devoid of faith. Transcending its portrait of post-war Italy, LA DOLCE VITA emerges as a meditation on vanity - that which humanity often mistakes for life's ultimate sweetness.
‘This critique of a decadent society has given rise to a cinematic space that is expansive, fluid, and sensual. In contrast to PICKPOCKET, ORDET and ROSETTA this is a cinema of the flesh, of lives consumed at both ends, presented with an unparalleled allure.’ (Tran Anh Hung)
* Screens with restoration copy
Still images © IntraMovies
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