"LA DOLCE VITA. Half-century portrait of a decadent Rome and excessive
yesterday it was 50 YEARS OF FAMOUS FILM PREMIERE of Federico Fellini. THE GENIUS OF DIRECTOR marked an era immortalized FIGURES AND 
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Saturday February 6, 2010
ROMA [EFE]. On February 5, 1960, the Italian cinema witnessed how the vision of Fellini mark a before and after in the history of cinema with a film that became a symbol of a lifestyle, a "dolce vita" Roman exhibits marked by worldly decadence and excess. Paradoxes of "La dolce vita" and found its expression from the first wave of reactions and reviews, with praise, admiration, insults and attacks that inveighed against the supposed immorality of the film or climate corrupt and were only confirmation of the start of a myth.
Catholic Cinematographic Center hung the film label "locks per tutti" ("no to all") and some critics gave the film positive reviews were fired from their newspapers. The indelible mark left by the director of "The Satyricon" and "Amarcord" drew a cool fancy fraught with symbols, a mosaic of stereotypes and a dream world that many still seek to wander through the streets of Rome. The diva played by Anita Ekberg, endlessly repeating their arrival at the airport to pose for the photographers, the tormented intellectual or compromising image hunter, since then baptized paparazzo parade through this fantasy come true, fragmented seemingly unrelated scenes and a bittersweet paradigm Roman night. Little remains of those meetings of the "paparazzi" in the Via Veneto in Rome, but the magic with which the master of dreams endowed "La dolce vita" with its most striking contradictions, retains some places, such as famous Café de Paris, which Fellini portrayed and became one of the centers of the "glamor" of European cinema. That local historical, icon of a world so bizarre as empty, corrupt and doomed to shipwreck, now belongs to the mafia of Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta, which it acquired last year by six million euros.
Neither has been stellar destination clubs Jackie O ", symbol of Roman nightlife frequented by Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Bisset, Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio Gassman and in the nineties, a meeting place for criminals and delinquents.
But if you move away from Via Veneto find one of the most vivid of the "belle époque" Italian, who made the Eternal City a center of celebrities during the filming of "Ben Hur" or "Quo Vadis": The Taverna Flavia, a restaurant that time has become a museum of photography, directed by Mimmo Cavicchia four decades.
The walls of this magical setting, among the favorites of the stars also today, are an authentic autograph on the wall that look hundreds of signatures and familiar faces, from Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn to Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar. Witness stories
film as the romance between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, star of the local maximum to a room that bears his name. There are framed his sandals "Cleopatra", perhaps the most coveted piece of this restaurant-museum, which Liz gave to Cavicchia when filmed.
"The protagonists of" La dolce vita "were the actors and the audience took to the streets to live and act like them. Everyone went crazy and wanted imitate movie characters. Each main character was feeling his way, "said Cavicchia.
Thus was born the desire to catch up, to live a madness that Fellini immortalized in the legendary scene in the Trevi fountain, whose waters are still traces of Anita Ekberg.
She became a dream of many a dip in the fountain is always crowded with tourists. Fantasy also impossible for the actress herself, as the scene was shot in a recreated copy in the "Studio 5" Cinecittà, where he set the teacher's chapel in 1993.
Somehow, Rome is that city imagined by Federico Fellini. "But the" dolce vita "is over," Cavicchia sentence. "There are not these characters, now the actors are only one day to present their films and are conditioned by their agents. In addition, people are invaded by television. If "Big Brother" tuning sets record, what "dolce vita" is that? It is the bitter life ".
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