What do you consider if you hear the phrase “The Dolce Vita”? If, like us, you’re a fan of Italian cinema, chances are high one of many first photos that can spring to thoughts is of a man wearing a tailor-made black go well with and sun shades, leaning again in a café chair, ft resting insouciantly on a crisp white tablecloth. We’re speaking, in fact, about Marcello Mastroianni.
Wrapping up our The Dolce Vita partnership with Disaronno for his or her 500-year anniversary*, we commissioned ace video editor and common LWLies contributor Luís Azevedo to create a particular tribute to Mastroianni — an actor who, over the course of his glittering movie profession, at all times appeared to epitomize the notion of a life lived superbly.
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In Marcello Mastroianni: A Life Lived Superbly, Azevedo explores how, because the go-to main man for a few of Italy’s most revered filmmakers — most notably Federico Fellini, for whom Mastroianni was as a lot alter ego as he was inventive muse — Mastroianni grew to become the defining face of Italian cinema throughout its ’60s and ’70s heyday. Certainly, his breakthrough position in Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece The Dolce Vita launched audiences to a romantic cosmopolitan splendid that endures to this day.
But regardless of his iconic performances in different classics comparable to 8½ and Night timeMastroianni’s on-screen persona was a lot extra complicated than his popularity because the undisputed king of cinematic cool suggests. Although he undoubtedly bolstered this picture each on and off display screen, the characters he performed typically contained multitudes and contradictions.
Watch the complete video essay beneath, and go to disaronno.com to find extra about Disaronno’s anniversary celebrations.
*1525: The legend of Disaronno begins.