Showing posts with label Anita Ekberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anita Ekberg. Show all posts

Monday, 12 January 2015

La Dolce Vita

Kittens.  Fountains.  Rome.

Actress Anita Ekburg has died, aged 83.  But in Federico Fellini's 1960 masterpiece La Dolce Vita, she is forever a gravity-defying kitten-cuddling goddess, spontaneously and sensuously embracing life by iconically wading into the Trevi Fountain in the heart of Rome in a black velvet ballgown.  If only we all could. 





Apparently the reality was less prosaic - it was hypothermically freezing, and Marcello Mastroianni had drunk so much vodka that he was falling over.  

But it's not those sort of details that endure...