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I Vitelloni - All-Region Combo

Alberto Sordi (Actor), Franco Interlenghi (Actor), Federico Fellini (Director) Format: Blu-ray
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
IMDb7.8/10.0
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Often regarded as a foreign predecessor of "Diner," this early Fellini triumph follows a group of teenage boys as they face, with dreaded anticipation, their futures in a small Italian coastal town. The transition to maturity proves especially tumultuous for Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), a lothario forced to settle down after seducing a friend's sister-and unwilling or unable to corral his carnal impulses. With Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, and Leonora Ruffo. 107 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Italian Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English. In Italian with English subtitles. Region Free

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.59 x 6.67 x 5.28 inches; 3.36 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Federico Fellini
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 52 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 3, 2018
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Cult Films
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BF2PQY1
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings

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Dine Fuss
5.0 out of 5 stars A Candid and Warm Cinematic Event...
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2004
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Trapped in a timeless sphere without pressure of accomplishment, maternal love nurses five men way past their adolescence in a small tourist town by the Adriatic Sea in post-war Italy. These five men drift around dreaming of an escape from the town, but a lack of motivation keeps them prisoners at the seaside location. The mutual motivations for the five men that keeps them adrift are women, wine, and the stories they tell each other. However, each character has his own motivating factor that drives him forward in daily life.

The group of the five men consists of Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), Alberto (Alberto Sordi), Leopoldo (Leopoldo Trieste), Riccardo (Riccardo Fellini), and Moraldo. The group's leader Fausto, a perpetual flirter, has gotten a young beautiful woman pregnant. Fausto's father insists that he do the right thing and marry the girl before she is disgraced in public. The lazy Alberto is the groups clown who is dependent on his mother whom he will never leave. Alberto frequently pleads for money from his sister as he is continuously broke. Eventually Alberto finds out that his sister has a married lover and it angers him. Leopold an aspiring writer and the intellectual of the group dreams of fame and success. The singer Riccardo follows the group on its nightly adventures. Moraldo is a philosophical moralist that wanders the streets at night deep in thought as he sees faults in the way they all live life. However, Moraldo has not yet found the courage to leave the small seaside town.

I Vitelloni is the second film that Fellini directed by himself which he also co-wrote with his talented brother, Riccardo Fellini. Riccardo and Federico based the script on semi-autographical accounts from their home town and a life which they both were very much inclined to depict. Unlike many of Fellini's later films I Vitelloni displays some of the Italian neo-realistic cinematic qualities that were common in the period when the film was shot. The realism brings an honest and warm atmosphere to the film which emphasizes the true nature of the characters. Realism in the script allows the audience is to experience an examination of the different characters in the film. This character study brings the audience candid emotions and a brilliant cinematic experience that warms the heart as there are hopes and dreams for us all.
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Heavy Theta
5.0 out of 5 stars neorealism hits a comfortable stride
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2004
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A group of middle class "yoots" hang out together, bonded by common roots and experience, but also by the process of self-discovery as the onset of adulthood face them with the coming of responsibility and the isolation of individuality. The focus of this fracturing process falls on one guy who discovers that his girlfriend is pregnant. If the plot sounds familiar, well it's because coming of age is a universal experience that crosses generations and cultures, and rarely fails to to produce an intense sense of nostalgia.

What differentiates Fellini's film (beyond the fact that it pre-dates similar fair from the French New Wave, British 60's, Graffiti-Flatbush-Diner, etc. whose original accessibility make them more familiar) is simply the sheer talent of the story-teller. The man could present characters and situations that still move and enlighten us. His later, more famous epics of excess were well grounded in this same exquisite sense of humanity. This is the first excellent film by one of film's most excellent directors.
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Steven E. Courtney
5.0 out of 5 stars It's about the music, stupid!
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2005
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How can anyone review this film and not even mention the fine score by Nino Rota? The score adds emotional depth to many of the poignant scenes, underscores the humor in others, and never becomes an unwanted distraction as with most modern film scores. I especially liked the way the "Sioux Mambo" is used as a prelude to each of Fausto's "turning points."

It's easy to see why this film has spawned so many imitations and inspired many directors, especially Martin Scorsese - a director who knows how to weave music into the fabric of his films as if it were an additional character.

One last point on Scorsese, when the Vitelloni are introduced in the beginning it was impossible for me not to think of the same introduction technique used in Goodfellas.

Great use of locations, a very good cast, brilliant cinematography, but most of all a great evocative score make I, Vitelloni well worth the price of admission and worthy of repeated viewings.
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Footy Apostle
5.0 out of 5 stars Time to Grow Up
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013
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This film is an excellent portrayal of adolescents' right of passage into adulthood. The protagonists in the film are stuck in limbo between adulthood and adolescence. They drink, party, and have casual sexual encounters with various women. Only the aptly named Moraldo realizes this limbo and decides to do something about it.

The story is excellent and the sometimes mundane atmosphere drives the theme further home. The characters just wait until something exciting happens while they drag themselves through their lives otherwise. The acting is brilliant and the shots of the sea and the urban buildings represent the characters' realization that a world of opportunity is out there while at the same time confining their mentality to the city, respectively.

This was my first foray into Fellini after hearing all the hype and I was not disappointed. I Vitelloni is a great start into the mind of one of Italy's greatest cinematic sons.
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Cosmoetica
3.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2012
I Vitelloni is not great cinema, but it is an important film in the Fellini canon, biographically, in its ability to be a Rosetta Stone to other key moments and images in later films of his. It is a film that, at first blush, seems like a simple melodrama, but upon rewatch shows colors not seen the first time. It also augurs a theme that Fellini would satirize to grand fruition in La Dolce Vita, his masterpiece: the anomy of modern human existence. There was a time when life was arranged- marriages and apprenticeships. But Fellini was alive at the time that changed, and the modern loner was born. It would take a landsman- Martin Scorsese- in a different country, to realize the end results of that anomy, in his masterpiece, Taxi Driver. But without the vitelloni there is no Mean Streets nor Travis Bickle. You got a problem with that?
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Michel F
5.0 out of 5 stars A movie lovers feast
Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2018
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There is no weakness in this movie. It's one of Fellini's first and one of his best. It's slow moving at first like most of his movies but the characters are developed with care so we can understand who they are and where the story is headed. The movie is about life, the joys, the sorrows, the coming of age and with it the responsibilities of adulthood. The character development, acting, sound/music, story line and everything that makes a movie worth seeing again and again to escape our daily grind are here in spades.
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Ramon
4.0 out of 5 stars Bueno
Reviewed in Spain on February 3, 2019
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Se corresponde a la espectativa
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Michele Sangiorgi
5.0 out of 5 stars MAGICI VITELLONI
Reviewed in Italy on January 22, 2017
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Un cult del nostro cinema italiano.
Un film molto bello e simpatico che tutti dovrebbero vedere, magari in compagnia per passare una bella serata.
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M.GRANDPERRIN "Matou"
5.0 out of 5 stars I Vitelloni de Fellini
Reviewed in France on December 25, 2013
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Très beau film que je connaissais depuis mon enfance et que j'ai revu avec intérêt et avec un jugement renouvelé
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Ron McKercher
5.0 out of 5 stars I Vitelloni
Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2019
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A superb movie from the genius of Fellini The acting is superb and the quality of the print is excellent (Criterion).
A very early Fellini movie with a lot of messages, fun and a little romance.
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