I Vitelloni (1953)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:22
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Romini postpone adulthood by idling in their home town. Fellini's elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through the characters of the... [More]
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste
Director: Federico Fellini
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Reviews for I Vitelloni
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One of Fellini's greatest films (and first international hit) is a poignant, bitter-sweet satire about a clique of male friends who refuse or can't grow up into adulthood. The movie had influence on Scorsese, Levinson Lucas and other American directors. Full Review |
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This is one of Fellini's best character studies and films. Full Review |
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This semiautobiographical work by Federico Fellini was the first film to bring him a measure of world attention. Full Review |
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Although the plot moves between set pieces, its dramatic structure is centered on the characters, individuals caught between terminal stasis and illegitimate dreams. Full Review |
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This dilemma between the desire not to mature and the infallibility of age is best summated in Nino Rota’s score. It highlights the film’s beautiful final shots and lends the final exit an air of playful hope. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It's as wistful and sad as it is funny and charming, with the first of Nino Rota's great scores to keep it burbling along. Full Review |
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Proof of Fellini's early genius as a storyteller. Full Review |
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Offers us the rare chance to witness a filmmaker becoming a master filmmaker, as well as the birth of an important relationship with composer Nino Rota. Full Review |
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What stays fresh (and enhanced by the beautifully restored black- and-white print) is how so many of Fellini's gifts and obsessions are already apparent in this early work. Full Review |
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It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style. Full Review |
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This most poetic of films is suffused by a depiction of emotional ties that Fellini respects profoundly while revealing how they can entrap an individual as surely as a ball and chain. Full Review |
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One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s. Full Review |
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If you have warm memories of American Graffiti, Diner, Mean Streets or even TV's Seinfeld, you owe it to yourself to see the masterpiece that inspired them all. Full Review |
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A must-see for Fellini enthusiasts and a worthwhile investment for everyone else. Full Review |
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Besides being the film that most influenced Martin Scorsese's breakthrough Mean Streets, this 1953 release remains the last word on friendship and disillusionment. Full Review |
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stands alongside Amarcord as an earlier reminiscence of Fellini's life in Rimini Full Review |
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