

I Vitelloni is my favorite Fellini film as it travels back to a time in his life before he would go on to become a celebrated director and evokes a nostalgic feeling of the years gone by. The climax scene of the film is quite moving and showcases the director’s brilliance at work. Also, Read: 10 Best Films of Federico Felliniĭrawing on memories from his youth, Fellini interlaces humor with drama to create endearing characters and moments. Recipient of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, Federico Fellini crafts a semi-autobiographical portrait of five young men lingering in a post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small coastal town. This formative work in the director’s filmography was his first critical and commercial success. “We all talked about leaving, but only one of us, one morning, without a word to a soul, actually left.”

Let us go back in time and visit/revisit six of his most cherished masterpieces to appreciate the filmmaker’s vision of life. The stories and characters in his movies are easily relatable and exhibit universal emotions that strike a chord with the viewer making his films equally popular among the masses as with the intellectual class. Widely regarded as the greatest Italian filmmaker, Fellini’s movies celebrate life in its entirety and are an ode to the resilience of the human spirit. There is only the infinite passion of life.” ― Federico FelliniĢ020 celebrates the birth centenary of one of the greatest auteurs of Cinema – Federico Fellini.
