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Amarcord (1974)
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Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 4
Ribald, sweet, and sentimental, Amarcord is a larger-than-life journey through a seaside village and its colorful citizens.
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Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
Ribald, sweet, and sentimental, Amarcord is a larger-than-life journey through a seaside village and its colorful citizens.
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Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's surrealistic art direction and to the frequently bawdy injections of sex and politics by screenwriters Fellini and Tonino Guerra. Fellini clearly has deep affection for the people of this seaside village, warts and all, and communicates it through episodic visual anecdotes which are seen as if through the mists of a favorite dream, playfully scored by Nino Rota and lovingly photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
R, 2 hr. 5 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Written By: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
In Theaters: Feb 13, 2009 Limited
On DVD: Apr 3, 1998
Janus Films
Cast
Bruno Zanin
Titta
Pupella Maggio
Titta's Mother
Armando Brancia
Titta's Father
Magali No?l
Gradisca
Ciccio Ingrassia
Uncle Teo
Nando Orfei
Pataca
Luigi Rossi
Lawyer
Ferruccio Brembilla
Fascist Leader
Gianfilipo Carcano
Don Baravelli
Giuseppe Ianigro
Titta's Grandfather
Mario Liberati
"Ronald Coleman" - Thea...
Franco Magno
Zeus
Marco Misul
Philosophy Teacher
Gennaro Ombra
Bisein
Domenico Pertica
Blindman
Josiane Tanzilli
Volpina
Alvaro Vitali
Naso
Fernando Vona
Candela
Maria Antonietta Beluzzi
Tobacconist
Gianfilippo Carcano
Critic Reviews for Amarcord
All Critics (41) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (5) | DVD (14)
Continues to resemble something a lewd, grouchy, fitfully indecent silent-movie director might have made for his first time using color and sound. That, at least, would explain the shouting.
December 22, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
Top Critic
Fellini is so bountiful with incident and observation that he makes most other film makers seem stingy.
April 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Jay Cocks
TIME Magazine
Top Critic
Federico Fellini's films beg to be seen on a movie screen. Their panoramic, overstuffed frames and larger-than-life characters overflow the boundaries of home theater; their exuberant, generous humor is best enjoyed in a packed auditorium.
March 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Top Critic
Orthodox Fellini lovers will give primacy to La Strada or La Dolce Vita, but Amarcord has its fans, and it's easy to see why.
March 13, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Philip Kennicott
Washington Post
Top Critic
He [Director Fellini] leaves us with the hope that the human comedy just may be able to survive everything.
February 13, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic
This Fellini opus is his most accessible to mass audiences since La Dolce Vita.
December 3, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Variety Staff
Variety
Top Critic
Sweet and endearing for many, irritating and tedious for others.
February 26, 2011 Full Review | Comment
Christopher Long
DVDTown.com
Amarcord lovingly pays tribute to the way memory fades away and imagination takes over, a process that grows more intoxicating with age.
February 20, 2011 Full Review | Comment
Glenn Heath Jr.
Slant Magazine
A masterpiece of personal filmmaking
December 30, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Dan Jardine Cinemania
Seen today, Amarcord is something of a disappointment, clever and moving in places, but also sprawling, undisciplined, clumsy in patches, and decidedly overlong.
December 17, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Gerald Peary
Boston Phoenix
[S]imply nonsensical to me. Fascists are idiots, Catholic priests are clowns -- I agree with this. So why don't I feel it?
December 13, 2009 Full Review | Comment
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
Bloated, overblown and essentially empty, Fellini's last hit movie skims over the surface of the lives it depicts, substituting manufactured sentiment for genuine feeling or understanding.
April 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)
Jamie Russell Film4
Amarcord will make you howl with laughter and then choke back a tear. And all the while you'll be building your own memories of this landmark movie.
April 23, 2009 Comment
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star
Watching the movie feels like flipping through a cartoon sketchbook of Fellini's vivid remembrances and formative experiences.
April 14, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly
I'm not sure how Amarcord played in the '70s, but now it feels like an affectionate parody of Italian movie conventions.
March 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Amarcord is Fellini's scrapbook of memories culled from his own life and it is completely engaging and delightful.
March 17, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org
It's one of the noted Italian directors more vibrant films that captures him at his most playful and incisive.
March 1, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
What's so surprising about this film is just how loose and effortlessly enjoyable it is, despite all its ideas and images. It's one of the director's very best.
January 16, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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I admit I've never been a huge Fellini fan, but I found Amarcord to be quite engaging. If anything, it's a portrait of humanity at its most interesting. The movie is funny, strange and surreal, but all at the same time being grounded in the reality of the story. The only minor problem that I had with it is its leisurely pace during portions of the film when you just want to move on to the next adventure. I may be alone in that, but I felt it watching it. Otherwise, the film is a wonderful look at growing up in Italy through the eyes of Frederico Fellini. November 13, 2011
Tim Salmons
Super Reviewer
A loosely structured story about growing up in Italy during Federico's youth. Bruno Zanin as Titta stands in for Federico Fellini. Multiple narrators take turns speaking to the camera to explain customs and tell somewhat tall tales. This caused me to not really identify with any one character. I didn't get too attached to anyone. It was nice that Titta became a familiar face, but even he was more of an observer of the craziness around him and didn't have a strong voice. As I was watching the movie on Mubi the word episodic came to mind as I watched the large cast, but later it just seemed unfocused. The sense of make-believe and flights of imagination were enjoyable. But it was hard to find a solid base to come back to after each adventure. Again and again bawdy and earthy struck me as perfect words to describe the people of this Italian town. February 19, 2007
Byron Brubaker
Super Reviewer
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