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01/26/06
I Vitelloni (1953)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:22
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.9/10
Theatrical Release:30-07-2004
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
Reviews for I Vitelloni
Top CriticIt'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.
08/07/04
Top CriticProof of Fellini's early genius as a storyteller.
08/03/04
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11/11/03
Top CriticOne 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.
06/26/09
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02/27/09
Top CriticThis is one of Fellini's best character studies and films.
05/24/07
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11/27/06
This semiautobiographical work by Federico Fellini was the first film to bring him a measure of world attention.
08/29/06
Top CriticAlthough the plot moves between set pieces, its dramatic structure is centered on the characters, individuals caught between terminal stasis and illegitimate dreams.
12/02/04
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.
09/21/04
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.
06/10/04
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.
04/23/04
It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style.
03/25/04
Top CriticThis 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.
03/25/04
Top CriticOne of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s.
02/19/04
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.
02/12/04
A must-see for Fellini enthusiasts and a worthwhile investment for everyone else.
12/12/03
Besides being the film that most influenced Martin Scorsese's breakthrough Mean Streets, this 1953 release remains the last word on friendship and disillusionment.
12/11/03
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