What do you consider while you hear the phrase “la dolce vita”? If, like us, you’re a fan of Italian cinema, likelihood is one of many first pictures that may spring to thoughts is of a man wearing a tailor-made black go well with and sun shades, leaning again in a café chair, toes resting insouciantly on a crisp white tablecloth. We’re speaking, after all, about Marcello Mastroianni.
Wrapping up our La 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 La Dolce Vita launched audiences to a romantic cosmopolitan ultimate that endures to this day.
But regardless of his iconic performances in different classics resembling 8½ and La Notte, Mastroianni’s on-screen persona was a lot extra advanced than his status because the undisputed king of cinematic cool suggests. Although he undoubtedly bolstered this picture each on and off display, the characters he performed typically contained multitudes and contradictions.
Watch the total video essay beneath, and go to disaronno.com to find extra about Disaronno’s anniversary celebrations.
*1525: The legend of Disaronno begins.