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  • Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi
  • Summary: Federico Fellini's first international success, this 1953 film, based on memories of his youth in Rimini, focuses on five layabouts in a sleepy seaside town during the winter offseason. (Film Forum)

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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    100
    Full of brilliantly executed coups de théâtre, showing the director's natural flair for spectacle.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    100
    It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style, echoed perfectly in a plaintive score by Fellini's potently evocative collaborator, Nino Rota.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s, hit Italy like a comic thunderbolt when it was released there in 1953 -- and it struck the American art-house audience in much the same way when it premiered here in 1956. Now it returns, and unlike its five aging-boy protagonists, this movie hasn't lost its first youth.

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