A "perpetual child" who lives off his mother and sister, famously depicted in a drunken, existential scene at a town masquerade.
An aspiring playwright whose artistic ambitions are constantly thwarted by his own provincial surroundings.
(1953) is Federico Fellini’s early semiautobiographical masterpiece that poignantly captures the aimless restlessness of post-war Italian youth. Released during the transition from Neorealism to Fellini's later surrealist style, the film follows five "young calves" (the literal translation of vitelloni ) as they drift through life in a small coastal town, clinging to a state of perpetual adolescence while dreaming of escape. The Aimless Quintet