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...title, translated from its rendering in an Italian regional dialect, means "I Remember." The movie finds Fellini once again back in his boyhood, in the same place-Rimini, a small seaside town-and in rather the same mood as in his earlier masterwork, I Vitelloni (1952). The film's framework is a full year in this small town, from the coming of one spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period...
Roma is not a narrative but a mosaic of phantoms from Fellini's memory and fantasy. The scenes of Fellini's childhood in Rimini have none of the insight of I Vitelloni, made 20 years ago and still far more immediate. A long fantasy about an ecclesiastical fashion show had its far more effective beginnings in La Dolce Vita, when Anita Ekberg galloped up to the dome of St. Peter's dressed in a parody of a priest's outfit. Fellini even teases us by reprising a melody from La Dolce Vita as the clergy parade...
White Sheikh--The first film directed solo by Federico Fellini and one of his best, a hilarious comedy of misdirected lower-middle-class romance. With I Vitelloni, another of the great Fellinis, dealing with lives stifled in the Italian seacoast town of Rimini. BRATTLE. Sheikh: 8. Vitelloni...
White Shelkh--The first film directed solo by Federico Fellini and one of his best; hilarious comedy of misdirected lower-middle-class romance. With I Vitelloni, another of the great Fellinis, dealing with stunted lives in the Italian seacoast town of Rimini. BRATTLE (starts Wednesday). Shelkh: 8, Vitelloni...
...Vitelloni was cut by only 61 seconds, and only because Italy's television censors find homosexuality a topic unfit for family viewing. In the U.S., though, films pass through the hands of many eager vandals: distributors cut them up for money's sake, television for time's sake, and censors for God's sake...