LA DOLCE VITA (aka THE SWEET LIFE) 1960, multi award-winning masterpiece, directed by Federico Fellini is one of the most popular films in the history of Italian cinema, inserted in the top 100 greatest films of the twentieth century. This success has never faded away in decades, actually it become a cultural symbol and role model for generations of directors, from Antonioni to Allen, and to Sofia Coppola. After 15 years of extraordinary collaboration with Fellini master Nino Rota one again is signing the original soundtrack of the film, Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1962, that led Rota to get the Grammy nomination for best original soundtrack. Nino Rota's music takes us with her persuasive magic and elegant atmosphere inside Rome told by Fellini, and creating a perfect harmony between images and sounds, a historical fresco of Italy of that time with its many contradictions and surreal. The characters played by the lovely Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni became the fascinating icons of an era, are illuminated by the sounds of the maestro Nino Rota. LA DOLCE VITA (aka THE SWEET LIFE) is one of the 30 titles of the new Sugar series dedicated to the soundtracks that have made the history of music for films. The CD comes in a completely remastered version with a new graphic look, and it will be released March 13. All the albums of the series are enriched by the words of the film producer and critic Marco Mueller, who is also the director of the most important festivals of the cinema, and he declared: "The films are the place where music becomes something different because it gained its own role within the whole. Without music films would be amputated of an essential and vital element. When it happened that an important composer has worked together with an important film director, an agreement gushed out between the two strong indipendent personalities, where a great music strengthened a great film and viceversa. The reasoned reproposal of the greatest titles from C.A.M catalogue will try to render account to this part of the adventurous history of the Italian films (and not only Italian). Proposing a shunting line from modern music, an alternative to light music. An whole continent to be ri-discovered". |
