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Bookmark this pageI Vitelloni (1953)
Director: Federico Fellini
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The best of Fellini went into this bleakly funny study of five young men adrift in the wasteland of their provincial home town. Middle class layabouts living by cadging off their families, aimlessly spending their days in pursuit of amusement and girls while nursing vague ambitions never likely to be more than pipe-dreams, they are trapped as much by their own moral bankruptcy as by the futureless society in which they have never quite grown up. Beautifully shot and performed, and governed by an inextricable mixture of affectionate sympathy and acid satire, it clearly (and beneficially) trails the neo-realist roots which Fellini later shook off.Author: TM
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- dave calhoun said...
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Posted on Apr 14 2009 14:43
Kerouac fan - thanks for your comment on the review above. I should point out that this review was written at least 20 years ago, maybe thirty, so can't really be used as proof that Time Out has changed!
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- Kerouac fan said...
- Posted on Apr 14 2009 12:06 What a sanctimonious right-wing review. How Time Out has changed! Don't you identify with the guy in the gutter anymore? It's a great film about ordinary men in their early twenties.
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Cast & crew
Director: Federico Fellini
Producer: Lorenzo Pegoraro
Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo, Achille Majeroni full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 109 mins
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