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Federico Fellini happily plunked down in front of his television set one night recently. Italy's government-run TV network was showing I Vitelloni, a vintage Fellini film that examined a quintet of Roman loafers. Basta! Gone was a scene−"a decisive scene"−where the hero is refused a job with a comedy troupe because he is not a homosexual like all the others. "Cutting an indispensable part of a film like this offends me deeply," wrote Fellini to the television network, "and so from now on I'm never letting one of my films...
...story has its pathos; but as the picture tells it, the tale is all too often merely pathetic. The fault lies chiefly with Director Federico Fellini. the brilliant creator of I Vitelloni, who has revived the bathetic excesses of La Strada without its noble brutalities. As for Fellini's wife, Actress Masina, she gives, almost gesture for Chaplinish gesture, the performance that made her famous as the idiot girl in La Strada. It's a case of the right part in the wrong picture...
...Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...
...Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TiME...
...Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies - a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...