à droite Leopoldo Trieste (moustache)
Personnages
Leopoldo - Intellectuel aux ambitions littéraires avouées, Leopoldo se trouve au centre d'une des scènes les plus étranges du film. Ayant appris le passage, au théâtre local, d'un acteur célèbre auquel il souhaite présenter son manuscrit.Leopoldo, accompagné de ses amis Vitelloni, le retrouve dans le recoin sordide qui lui sert de loge, puis finit la soirée seul avec lui, pour réaliser que l'intérêt que lui porte le vieux cabot n'a rien de littéraire.
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Year 1953 : First international success by Italian auteur of dreams.
Author: FilmCriticLalitRao from Cinema of the world / World Cinema.
22 January 2008
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I Vitelloni, directed by Fellini in 1953 was his first international success.Although it is largely autobiographical in nature there is no obvious mention of Rimini,an Italian coastal town where Fellini was born.There are things to be learned from this film such as erratic behavior of a generation which grew up after second world war.This was the one of the rare post war films which spoke of conflicts within family.It is true that Italian master has drawn an honest portrait of aimless youngsters who were not fit for anything but what might be intriguing to an average viewer is to ascertain as to why Fellini decided not to throw some light about why his protagonists were like that ? This is the reason why Fellini has left all important reasoning task for viewers to decide about strengths and weaknesses of his protagonists.I Vitelloni is a film in which there is no escape for anyone neither for its young heroes nor for their family members who like them are also trapped in their own dreary existence.
