Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant

Now, even on Sundays, the beach is deserted. Still, we’d stare out to sea. I Vitelloni (1953)

“And what does this mean? Why is this important? It demonstrates that the film is actually autobiographical in the deepest sense, not in the ordinary sense that he told about things that surely, in his youth, happened to Federico in Florence. Not autobiographical in that sense, but autobiographical in the deeper sense. Meaning that the character is really him, and he found the strength and the courage to abandon the provinces. What’s important to note is not the fact that he runs away from the provinces, but rather that he is able to capture the real essence of provincial life and to describe it in such a way that it becomes much more than a mere description. In order to become art, literature, life, cinema, you must separate yourself from it.” -- Vittorio Boarini on Federico Fellini and I Vitelloni

I Vitelloni (1953)