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A funny, poignant portrait of youth, I VITELLONI draws on director Federico Fellini’s memories of growing up in the sleepy seaside town of Rimini. Fellini’s aimless group of young male characters, which include a loose-lipped Lothario, an androgynous joker, and a "sensitive" would-be writer, are shown with precision and sympathy rather than sentimentality. As young men stranded between adolescence and adulthood, financially supported by their relatives and friends, they spend their wind-swept Adriatic winter dreaming about life in Rome and Milan.
Inspiring such films as American Graffiti and Mean Streets, and with a score by Nino Rota and an Oscar-nominated script, I VITELLONI stands as one of Fellini’s most deeply felt works.
"Fellini's most beautiful film... one of the top dozen films of all time." — John Simon, New York Magazine
"Magnificent comedy-drama — arguably Fellini's masterpiece." — Leonard Maltin
"It's my favorite Fellini film, possibly his most personal effort and by far his funniest."
— Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
"It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style." — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"For me, it captures the bittersweet emotions of a moment that eventually comes for everyone: the moment you realize you can either grow up or stay forever a child." — Martin Scorsese
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showtime
Monday, January 16 at 7 pm
location
THE GREEN ROOM
144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel)
admission
$6 general / $4 GBFS members
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