Amarcord
The Criterion Collection
In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award-winning Amarcord was one of Fellini's most personal - and popular - films, and it remains one of cinema's enduring treasures.
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I remeber - sal33
It has been a long time since I've seen this film and it still seems fresh. Actually what may have helped was that it seemed like I was watching it for the first time.
It doesn't follow any Hollywood pattern. It doesn't have a through line with one protagonist and one main plotline. It's a warm, comical look back at a time that has passed.masterpiece - surfer
This is one of my favourite films of all time. It is perhaps more straightforward and less of an 'art' film that some of Fellini's more challenging work but it is a beautifully told remembrance of a year in the life of a boy coming of age.
The film includes a host of memorable moments as it passes through the seasons and the range of emotions from comedy and farce to drama and pathos. In one indelible scene the entire population of the small Italian town where the story is set take out in small boats at night to see a giant ocean liner pass them by like a magical ship glowing in the dark. Here is the passing of childhood told as only a master film maker can tell it.A look at an odd village... - FilmJunkie
Like all Fellini films this follows a large cast as they mingle and intermingle. Unlike many of his films there is no dashing male lead, no Marcello Mastrionni, and no real protagonist. This film looks a town in Italy during the rise of fascism, looking at a moment from many people's lives and leaving the town without any major change occuring.
This is the film that most obviously influences the work of Woody Allen in its style and cast of oddballs as well as narrative form and sense of humour.
Not one of the better Fellini films, it falls short as it tries to be too many things and achieves none of them.
It is not a social commentary, nor a comedy, nor a drama, nor a coming of age piece, but it attempts to be all.
It is an all right work by the great Fellini, but I much prefer '8 1/2' and 'La Dolce Vita'.
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I remeber - sal33
It has been a long time since I've seen this film and it still seems fresh. Actually what may have helped was that it seemed like I was watching it for the first time.
It doesn't follow any Hollywood pattern. It doesn't have a through line with one ...masterpiece - surfer
This is one of my favourite films of all time. It is perhaps more straightforward and less of an 'art' film that some of Fellini's more challenging work but it is a beautifully told remembrance of a year in the life of a boy coming of age.
The film ...A look at an odd village... - FilmJunkie
Like all Fellini films this follows a large cast as they mingle and intermingle. Unlike many of his films there is no dashing male lead, no Marcello Mastrionni, and no real protagonist. This film looks a town in Italy during the rise of fascism, looking at ...