I Vitelloni literally means ‘the veal calves’, and refers to the five main characters who, like calves raised for veal, are growing fat through inaction. The meaning of the title of Federico Fellini’s film unlocks some of its themes. It is beautifully shaped and one’s aesthetic response to it is highly complex.’ This is conceivably the best film Fellini ever made: it has the smell of urban Italy its characterisation is deep but economical it sums up an epoch, a social class, a debilitated Latin culture. What Burgess says: ‘I once asked John Simon, the New York film critic who seemed to hate most films, if there was any film he unreservedly liked. To mark the 50th anniversary of the first release of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, we present a weekly online series Anthony Burgess at the Movies in which we zoom in on Anthony Burgess’s interest in cinema.
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