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...Vitelloni, youth is struggling much less with its burdens than with itself, and there is no attempt at a psychological explanation. It does a remarkable job of showing young people as human animals, and how they resolve the problem of co-existence in society. Getting along is the problem, not getting ahead. Unlike Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood, they don't surrender; the Young and the Passionate simply slow down. Their responsibility, they realize, is in the end only to themselves, which idea, one can readily see, has probably not hit America...
...Vitelloni, directed with tenderness and humor by Federico Fellini, is technically superb in every respect. The actors, led by Franco Fabrizi, manage to separate themselves from the crowd and yet show how each contributes to the crowd. Each seems to develop a point of view. Leonora Ruffo matures from a squealing dumb Italian to a sympathetic character of real stature. And Nina Rota's music is excellent...
...Vitelloni. The year's best picture by the year's best director, Federico Fellini; a gentle satire on Italy's socially gilded, spiritually gelded youth (TIME...
...Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italianmade 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, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...