La Dolce Vita, 50 years and counting

An article about the anniversary of La Dolce Vita from the BBC:

Fifty years ago this month, cinema history was being made - inside a fountain.

Not any old fountain, but Salvi's masterpiece, the Trevi fountain, in the centre of Rome.

The scene has the actors Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wading through its chilled waters in sensual abandon.

An erotically charged, but fully clothed, expression of lust and loss, it was shockingly original and audacious for audiences half a century ago.

The film was La Dolce Vita, or The Sweet Life.

The Trevi fountain scene has become an iconic moment, pitting an electrifying Ekberg, with those waters caressing her impossibly voluptuous body, alongside a hopelessly infatuated, tuxedo-clad Mastroianni.

It is a fusion of eroticism, temptation and ultimately frustration and all encapsulated into one minute and 38 seconds of celluloid brilliance.