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Considered Fellini’s absolute masterpiece, I VITELLONI directly influenced films like ‘Mean Streets’, ‘American Graffiti’, ‘Diner’ and other bunch-of-guys-hanging-out, coming of age movies. Autobiographical and set in the director's seaside hometown of Rimini, it shows a clique of male friends who won’t or can't grow up. Close to their 30s, mostly unemployed, they are the Vitelloni of the title, killing time from bar to beach, as they seek to spice up their uneventful provincial lives.
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 (originally released in the U.S. as The Young and the Passionate) is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches: Skirt-chaser Fausto, forced to marry a girl he has impregnated; Alberto, the perpetual child; Leopoldo, a writer, thirsting for fame; and Moraldo, the only member of the group troubled by a moral conscience. 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.
Alberto Sordi