#anouk aimee

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Anouk Aimee, 1957

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Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimee

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Attention jaded Continental sophisticates and members of the love-hungry, pleasure-chasing international sin set! Visionary director Federico Fellini’s scandalous, carnival-esque and hallucinatory epic masterpiece La dolce vita was released in Italian cinemas on this day sixty-five years ago (5 February 1960)! (It was condemned by the Catholic Church as blasphemous and banned in Spain until 1975!). You know that iconic image of voluptuous Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg frolicking in Rome’s Trevi Fountain? That’s from La dolce vita – one of THE most stylish movies ever made! Fellini’s swirling camera captures the acme of Roman glamour: the cars, the clothes, the sunglasses, the nightlife (no one films debauched nightclub, party and orgy scenes like Fellini in his 1960s pomp), all accompanied by the flashing camera bulbs of the parasitic paparazzi! Commemorate this decadent cinematic milestone by sinking a Negroni or glass of Prosecco today! (And read Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome (2016), author Shawn Levy’s seductive in-depth account of this whole “Hollywood on the Tiber” era).

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Anouk Aimee © Douglas Kirkland

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anouk aimée, paris 1994

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Anouk Aimée photographed by Antonio Lopez, 1975