Anouk Aimée Against the Wall", 1958). Besides the French cinema, Aimée's career include a number of films made in Spain, Great Britain, Italy and Germany. She achieved worldwide attention in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (the Good Life, 1960) and "Lola" (1961). She appeared again in Fellini's "8½", and would remain in Italy during the first half of the 1960s, making films for a number of Italian directors. Because of her role in "La Dolce Vita", biographer Dave Thompson describes Aimée as a "rising star who exploded" onto the film world. He adds that singer-songwriter Patti Smith, who in her teens saw the
La Dolce Vita (barge) in 1983 and continued to be operated as a sailing barge by a French couple. Around 1988, she was sold to a new owner in Venice and converted to a hotel barge in 1990. She continues her life as a hotel barge there today. She has worked in the Netherlands, throughout Scandinavia, France, and Italy. She has also sailed under the names of "Hoop en Vertrouwen" (), "Gerris", and "Lobbes". "La Dolce Vita" currently has 3 passenger cabins, allowing her to carry up to 6 passengers. She also has separate crew quarters which house the crew of three. The crew