This early masterpiece from Federico Fellini won the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival and inaugurated a decade-long stretch that cemented his status as a cinematic giant. A thinly veiled memoir by this most autobiographical of filmmakers, I Vitelloni follows the meanderings of a group of five friends--the titular "vitelloni," or layabouts--who linger in an adolescent limbo in their parochial seaside town. Generous and ultimately heart-breaking, I Vitelloni may well be the most big-hearted of the Italian master's movies.--All Movie Guide. Sponosored by the Friends of the Cranford Public Library.
