I Vitelloni
(1953)
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I Vitelloni
(1953)
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Franco Interlenghi | ... |
Moraldo Rubini
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Alberto
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Franco Fabrizi | ... |
Fausto Moretti
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Leopoldo Trieste | ... |
Leopoldo Vannucci
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Riccardo Fellini | ... |
Riccardo
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Leonora Ruffo | ... |
Sandra Rubini
(as Eleonora Ruffo)
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Jean Brochard | ... |
Francesco Moretti
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Claude Farell | ... |
Olga
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Carlo Romano | ... |
Michele Curti
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Enrico Viarisio | ... |
Signor Rubini
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Paola Borboni | ... |
Signora Rubini
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Lída Baarová | ... |
Giulia Curti
(as Lida Baarowa)
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Arlette Sauvage | ... |
La sconosciuta del cinema
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Vira Silenti | ... |
Gisella
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Maja Niles | ... |
Caterina
(as Maja Nipora)
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Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend and companion Moraldo Rubini, is forced to marry her. After their honeymoon, he takes a job as a salesman of religious objects in a small shot. He isn't changed by his marriage and still looks for women, with his friends, when and where they can find them. He even tries to seduce the wife of his boss and is fired. After each episode, Sandra forgives him. He and his friends of similar temperament are content to be idle, chase girls and leave the work and job-hunting to others. After spending the night away from home with a girl, Sandra cannot forgive anymore and runs off with their child. Fausto and his friends search all over fearing the worst, and he finally finds her at the home of his father, Francesco, who gives him a deserved thrashing. The couple reconciles and Fausto pledges to reform. Life goes on as usual for his other friends, always planning but never getting around to doing anything constructive, with ... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
This is a wonderful film. The BFI have got their act together and made a new print, so finally I get to se this - and to be honest I preferred it to La Dolce Vita (despite absence of Mastrionni - sexiest man in history of cinema). Anyway, some of these scenes were just breath-takingly beautiful, especially the aftermath of the carnival, where Angelo looks drunkenly at the clowns (about to become a key Fellini motif). What especially impressed was the soundtrack, which lurched from a fairly typical 'melodrama' score to brilliant use of natural sound, especially the cold wind whipping around the streets off the sea. This sound adds pathos, and helps you understand that sandra and Faustos' 'happy end' is merely temporary: this is a desolate place which makes for desolate lives. It differs from neo-realist classics such as Bicycle Thieves in that it places malaise into the spiritual and emotional realm rather than the financial, although you still get some sense that the boys' economic hardship is maybe not entirely voluntary. Really genuienely enjoyable on your first watch, something I don't think you can say about all Fellini's films, beautifully shot and wonderfully paced, you feel as if you have witnessed a little miracle watching this film.