Federico Fellini's lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer who seeks the fleeting excesses and decadence of life and sex. He sleeps with the beautiful Maddalena, alienating and driving his lover, Emma, to suicide.

When he meets an elusive actress, Sylvia, he dives deep into the abyss.