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.
I Vitelloni
We are the hollow men in this last of meeting places we grope together and avoid speech. Gathered on this beach of the torrid river.
1953 · 1h 43m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Federico Fellini
Overview
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Director and cast
- Federico Fellini Director
- Franco Interlenghi as Moraldo Rubini
- Alberto Sordi as Alberto
- Franco Fabrizi as Fausto Moretti
- Leopoldo Trieste as Leopoldo Vannucci
- Riccardo Fellini as Riccardo
- Leonora Ruffo as Sandra Rubini
- Jean Brochard as Francescco Moretti
- Claude Farell as Olga
- Carlo Romano as Michele Curti
- Enrico Viarisio as Signor Rubini
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style.
One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s.
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.
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