The year 2020 marked the 60th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s "La Dolce Vita" (Italian pronunciation: la ˈdoltʃe ˈviːta; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life") (1960), is a beguiling, shocking, sexy, cruel film that takes aim at our culture’s celebrity worship. It is also one of cinema’s enduring masterpieces, frequently featured in film critics’ “Top Ten” lists - and one of the late American film critic Roger Ebert’s all-time favorites.

The film, "La Dolce Vita", itself was, actually, inspired by a real-life scandal known as the “Montesi Affair.” After a drug-and-alcohol-fueled party held by Rome’s aristocracy in 1953, the body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi was found mysteriously washed up on a beach in Ostia (the same where Marcello encounters a sea creature in the film’s climax). Witnesses suggest her body had been secretly dumped. Once Montesi’s death was publicized, all of Italy wanted in on the scandal, with outrageous (and not entirely true) stories of sexual slavery, prostitution, and orgies conjuring a Caligulan fresco of Roman decadence and rot.

The film was perceived by the Catholic Church as a parody of the second coming of Jesus, the opening scene and the film were condemned by the Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" in 1960. "La Dolce Vita" was also subject to widespread censorship causing the film to be banned in Spain, until the death of Franco in 1975.

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