Comedy · Drama
Italian
1960 · Directed by Federico Fellini · 174 min
A journalist drifts through a week of nights in Rome, chasing celebrities, scandals and a half-abandoned ambition to write something serious. Fellini turns the city's glamour into a long, episodic, richly staged portrait of pleasure and its aftertaste.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 1960s European art cinema, it showed that a three-hour, plotless social panorama could be a popular success and a major critical event.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a series of nights, each a different answer to the same question: what is Marcello looking for?
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