The Spectator reviews La Dolce Vita, December 1960
It’s hard when a legend turns up to be judged: hard to judge it, hard on the legend. Everything suffers, maybe judgment most of all. How can we help being influenced— or at least forewarned to a critically unhealthy extent—by the national hysteria Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (‘X’ certificate) aroused in Italy early this year? Everything
