3/31/2024 0 Comments Federico fellini youtube![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, would-be playwright Leopoldo (Leopoldo Trieste) continues work on his dreary plays, dreaming of staging them one day. Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the leader of the pack, marries his sweetheart, but finds himself constantly distracted by other women. Set in the director’s hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or layabouts, who while away their listless days in their small seaside village. “Italian maestro Federico Fellini’s first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. For me, it captures the bittersweet emotions of a moment that eventually comes for everyone, the moment you realize you can either grow up or forever be a child.”Įlbert Ventura of Rovi flawlessly sums up the film: ![]() Toughest of all critics, John Simon, in his book, Private Screenings states, “I Vitelloni is a masterpiece, one of the ten or twelve great films ever made.” Martin Scorsese in his documentary Il Mio Viaggio in Italia is a great admirer of this early work and says, “I Vitelloni was a major inspiration for my picture Mean Streets back in 1973 and continues to be so to this day. Although an early Fellini film, many regard this as his finest work. ![]()
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