I Vitelloni (1953)
(The Spivs/The Young Bucks)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Eleonora Ruffo, Alberto Sordi
Synopsis:
The lives and dreams of five unemployed young men in a small Italian seaside town centre on the philandering adventures of one of their number, who has made the sister of another pregnant.
Review:
Not a neo-realist film at all, really, since it already bears many of the hallmarks of Fellini's more personal brand of cinema: a wide-ranging narrative drawing strongly on reminiscence, a central character bearing a resemblance to the artist (Moraldo), an expressionistic use of sound (whistling wind). Nevertheless it is a fascinating document of life in a postwar Italian town, with its annual events, its out of season beach, the hangover of rustic life, the generational gap in attitudes to work, and so on. Not a masterpiece, but a film with a sadness all its own.
(The Spivs/The Young Bucks)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Eleonora Ruffo, Alberto Sordi
Synopsis:
The lives and dreams of five unemployed young men in a small Italian seaside town centre on the philandering adventures of one of their number, who has made the sister of another pregnant.
Review:
Not a neo-realist film at all, really, since it already bears many of the hallmarks of Fellini's more personal brand of cinema: a wide-ranging narrative drawing strongly on reminiscence, a central character bearing a resemblance to the artist (Moraldo), an expressionistic use of sound (whistling wind). Nevertheless it is a fascinating document of life in a postwar Italian town, with its annual events, its out of season beach, the hangover of rustic life, the generational gap in attitudes to work, and so on. Not a masterpiece, but a film with a sadness all its own.
(The Spivs/The Young Bucks)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Eleonora Ruffo, Alberto Sordi
Synopsis:
The lives and dreams of five unemployed young men in a small Italian seaside town centre on the philandering adventures of one of their number, who has made the sister of another pregnant.
Review:
Not a neo-realist film at all, really, since it already bears many of the hallmarks of Fellini's more personal brand of cinema: a wide-ranging narrative drawing strongly on reminiscence, a central character bearing a resemblance to the artist (Moraldo), an expressionistic use of sound (whistling wind). Nevertheless it is a fascinating document of life in a postwar Italian town, with its annual events, its out of season beach, the hangover of rustic life, the generational gap in attitudes to work, and so on. Not a masterpiece, but a film with a sadness all its own.