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Vitelloni (API-Jamus). A dying art, like a rotting fruit, may hold the seed of a new birth. In Italy, as the so-called realistic cinema has decayed, a vital new talent has emerged: Federico Fellini. Last summer La Strada (The Road) revealed him to U.S. audiences as an artist of uncertain means but of startling sensibility. Vitelloni, completed in 1953, a year before La Strada, secured Fellini's fame in Europe. It is a finer piece of work than La Strada in every way. Technically, it is an elegant exercise in cinematic diction. Literarily, it is a murderous...
...Strada is a haunting journey along little-travelled roads. Dealing with the problem of tragic loneliness and with the idea that everyone on earth has a particular place and purpose is not a new project for a film, but to illustrate his themes the director Federico Fellini has chosen singular characters in unusual places and situations...
...travelling with his characters Mr. Fellini comes upon many striking views of Italiaa countryside, poverty, and carnival life. Although the people are not so varied as the background, the acting is intriguing. Anthony Quinn's strong man suffers only from a slightly oppressive sameness, as he so rarely allows human emotion to intrude upon his personality. Giulietta Masina has a bright-eyed face which, helped by playful makeup, registers joy and sorrow superbly; unfortunately she has few other expressions. Richard Basehart plays the disappointed clown with Puck-like alacrity...
There is only one joke to the movie, but it is a funny one. Director Frederico Fellini is an adept at catching his characters at their ridiculousest to make it funnier. Nine-tenths of the movie is corn, and all of it is a pleasure to watch. There is also a short concerning "Inside the Kinsey Report" which is not half so amusing, and there is another miscellaneous short...