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 Viva dishes in the sink, food on the counter and stacks of old magazines and papers. Along with Andy Warhol's apartment and Viva's apartment, "La Dolce Viva" also takes place in Max's Kansas City, a restaurant where the models, actresses, and Warhol were treated like celebrities. Viva's character is introduced to readers as an actress in Andy Warhol's movies and later, readers find out that she is a model who influences the fashion industry. Goldsmith uses questions that lead to showing Viva's promiscuous side and her dependency on a male figure. Viva is quoted saying "I slept with him for security