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by spelvini in Movies, , Nov 15 '07
Pros: great filmic storytelling and imagery Cons: need to know the Fellini cinematic lexicon ... but that's a good thing!
Criterion's release of Fellini’s first international success is a film that celebrates the maleness in all men as shown in the friendship between a group of ambition-less young men in Rimini Italy. It is an autobiographical film and shows through the ...
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by metalluk - Top 100, Apr 21 '05
Pros: Well-drawn characters; strong script; neo-realism combined with proto-Fellinesque elements; good performances; Nino Rota score Cons: Fantastical and chimerical elements of Fellini's style not yet fully developed
Fellini's I Vitelloni (1953) is a mildly black comedy that might be described as belonging to the "failing to come-of-age" genre. For Fellini himself, however, it marked his coming-of-age as an international personage and one of the great ...
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by vicfar , Sep 15 '06
Pros: A charming coming-of-age story set in post-WWII Italy Cons: Themes and attitudes are a bit dated. Story is a cliche'.
Federico Fellini was only 30 in 1953 when he created I Vitelloni. After a couple of flops, his whole career was at stake with what was supposed to be a comedy about five lazy young guys out to have a good time and goof around in post-WWII ...
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by thevoid99 - Top 100, Nov 25 '08
Pros: Fellini's Direction, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Rota's Score & Cast. Cons: A Very Unsympathetic Character with Very Little Development.
After two feature-length film credits he made since 1950, Federico Fellini was just a filmmaker on the rise. Despite a critical and commercial flop of The White Sheik, which was his solo directorial debut, the film did give him attention for ...
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