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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381239225
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 39383
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1956
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Description:
Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives. Criterion's DVD also includes an exclusive documentary featuring interviews with late actor Leopoldo Trieste and other actors, technicians, and scholars; the original trailer and newsreels from the time of the film's release; a collection of stills, posters, and memorabilia; and more.
Amazon.com:
Federico Fellini's breakthrough film, the 1953 I Vitelloni, is one of the cinema's seminal stories about slacker males, and a highly entertaining one at that. Following the unfortunate failure of his comedy The White Sheik, Fellini prepared to shoot La Strada (he would release that early masterpiece in 1954), but decided at the last minute to make an autobiographical feature about mischievous, drifting, 30-ish losers in a small, seaside town. I Vitelloni clicked with international audiences and remains an obvious influence on such later classics as Breaking Away and Diner. But there's nothing like Fellini's almost self-mocking fusion of gritty neo-realism with the audacious, illusionary style he would later be entirely linked. The ensemble comedy follows the ever-diminishing fortunes of five young men who can't define, let alone jump-start, their dreams, particularly the caddish Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), who thinks nothing of molesting the wife of his father-in-law's best friend. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - The First Great Fellini Film
A `vitello' is a veal calf, one year of age or less and not yet weaned. A `vitellone' is an overaged or overgrown unweaned calf - and also is slang for a young man who remains sheltered and inactive and has yet to create a real life of his own. This 1953 film is an obvious source for every subsequent movie about young men who stay in the shelter of family and neighborhood, failing to live really autonomous lives despite their pretensions, `Diner' and `Breaking Away' among them.
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Rating: - A sumptuous masterpiece!
Il vitelloni was another evidence of the vital creativity of FEFE: Filmed just eight years after the bloody WW2, it mirrors the way of living of four inseparable friends, whose main leader -Faust-is forced to marry with Sandra, after she is pregnant. He will be forced to get a job to maintain his family, but his obsessive spirit of seduction will lead him at the edge of disaster. Then, every member of this peculiar group must follow his own bliss. One of them -Leopoldo - is a sensitive intellectual, ... Read More
Rating: - I Vitelloni
Fellini's touching, semiautobiographical first feature--the title translates to "wastrels" or "layabouts"--is the quintessential recounting of a now-clichéd tale, so it's no surprise that Coppola, among others, borrowed the premise for his "American Graffiti." Drawing on his own beginnings, Fellini creates one of the crowning coming-of-age stories, a meditation on the bonds of loyalty, friendship, and home that features early glimpses of the maestro's fascination with all things carnivalesque, and a memorably ... Read More
Rating:  - Fellini in transition
I Vitelloni signalled Fellini's move away from neo-realism, with all the trademarks (dwarves, older women, outrageous costumes, anecdotes replacing narrative) that would later become so exaggerated making brief and more naturalistic appearances in his apparently aimless tale of a bunch of time-wasting friends in a small coastal town where the biggest events are growing a moustache or sideburns. That it somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts is quietly magical in its own way, and the amiably dry narration ... Read More
Rating: - An Iconic Landmark
Barry Levinson's "Diner" must have been inspired by this ground-breaking work of genius from 1953 written by Federico Fellini. Both "I Vitelloni" and "Diner" are about five males who linger somewhere between childhood and manhood, sensing the greater world beyond their small domain, but who are incapable of breaking out of the protective comfort of what they know so well. Both directors are known to have given their actors little in the way of direction. Both accepted their actors on their own terms, as the people ... Read More
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