Not quite bleak enough for my taste .

My first Fellini and I expected this to be one of the Fellini movies I was least intrigued by— and I was right . I also just didn’t really connect .

The score was my highlight which always set the tempo for the constant genre blending . The comedy simply didn’t land for me under any capacity . This isn’t a bad movie by any stretch of the sense … but this viewing simply didn’t do enough for me . It’s hard for me to 100% fully commit emotionally when undercut by corny comedy . 

The melodrama aspects were this film at its best in my opinion combined with the relationship dynamics . The sound design was great , and the set design was phenomenal . Fellini better give me a double shot of his musical numbers in every other movie … they were great .

The first Fellini I’ve seen , and the forecast looks great . I can guarantee a few I will love … ( 8 1/2 , Satyricon , La Strada , Nights of Cabiria ) after I watch the rest I will revisit and reevaluate this .

Not quite bleak enough for my taste .

My first Fellini and I expected this to be one of the Fellini movies I was least intrigued by— and I was right . I also just didn’t really connect .

The score was my highlight which always set the tempo for the constant genre blending . The comedy simply didn’t land for me under any capacity . This isn’t a bad movie by any stretch of the sense … but this viewing simply didn’t do enough for me . It’s hard for me to 100% fully commit emotionally when undercut by corny comedy . 

The melodrama aspects were this film at its best in my opinion combined with the relationship dynamics . The sound design was great , and the set design was phenomenal . Fellini better give me a double shot of his musical numbers in every other movie … they were great .

The first Fellini I’ve seen , and the forecast looks great . I can guarantee a few I will love … ( 8 1/2 , Satyricon , La Strada , Nights of Cabiria ) after I watch the rest I will revisit and reevaluate this .

is homoeroticism inherent to all mid century european films or am i just inclined to yaoi

is homoeroticism inherent to all mid century european films or am i just inclined to yaoi

I Vitelloni feels like drifting through a life you’re secretly afraid to leave. I Vitelloni isn’t loud about its melancholy, it lingers in small moments, in idle conversations, in the quiet realization that time is slipping by while nothing really changes. Federico Fellini captures that fragile space between youth and adulthood with a kind of bittersweet honesty that stings more the older you get. It’s not about ambition or failure, but about inertia, the quiet tragedy of staying the same.

Also Federico Fellini always had this particular feeling about theatres, he could with one scene, connect every character’s world in dancing and singing in such a surrealistic and real at the same time way. That’s what is called felliniesque cinema

I Vitelloni feels like drifting through a life you’re secretly afraid to leave. I Vitelloni isn’t loud about its melancholy, it lingers in small moments, in idle conversations, in the quiet realization that time is slipping by while nothing really changes. Federico Fellini captures that fragile space between youth and adulthood with a kind of bittersweet honesty that stings more the older you get. It’s not about ambition or failure, but about inertia, the quiet tragedy of staying the same.

Also Federico Fellini always had this particular feeling about theatres, he could with one scene, connect every character’s world in dancing and singing in such a surrealistic and real at the same time way. That’s what is called felliniesque cinema

my first fellini, definitely not my last. really good film. it feels like one of those movies you watch at the right time, about leaving youth behind and facing adulthood. these guys are just drifting, avoiding responsibility and acting like it’ll last forever, but reality slowly catches up to them

my first fellini, definitely not my last. really good film. it feels like one of those movies you watch at the right time, about leaving youth behind and facing adulthood. these guys are just drifting, avoiding responsibility and acting like it’ll last forever, but reality slowly catches up to them

To leave and not to escape

To leave and not to escape