In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
Bruno Zanin Armando Brancia Pupella Maggio Giuseppe Ianigro Nando Orfei Stefano Proietti Magali Noël Gianfranco Marrocco Antonino Faà di Bruno Donatella Gambini Fernando De Felice Bruno Lenzi Bruno Scagnetti Alvaro Vitali Ciccio Ingrassia Francesco Vona Aristide Caporale Luigi Rossi Gennaro Ombra Domenico Pertica Ferruccio Brembilla Marcella Di Falco Antonio Spaccatini Maria Antonietta Beluzzi Josiane Tanzilli Gianfilippo Carcano Mauro Misul Ferdinando Villella Francesco Maselli Show All…
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Saint Louis cries when you touch yourself.
Never have I seen a childhood nostalgia film be so brutally honest when it comes to the real life places and people that the story is inspired from. Amarcord comes from the mind and memories of the great Federico Fellini's carnivalesque and alien brain. This film is supposed to be a very personal and achingly nostalgic portrait of the directors youth in a small 1930's seaside village and Italy, and while I didn't grow up in Italy, nor was I born anywhere near 1930, I can tell you that no matter where you are from or how you got to where you are now, Amarcord will feel like home.
However, Amarcord won't feel…
this film really feels like a collection of moments that my imaginary italian grandfather would tell me whenever i feel sad
A truthful collection of lies.
Amarcord is a bit much to wrap your head around in a single viewing. Generally speaking, there's no central protagonist or plot, and instead of this traditional narrative structure, the film offers what is basically a series of vignettes that involve a similar set of characters and that take place in a similar setting. What it's about isn't totally obvious—which is probably for the best, rather than having them shallowly play out on the surface—but what is obvious is that it's less a customary story about a single person and more a chaotic poem about a specific place and time.
Most of the events of Amarcord occur in a small, rural village in Italy, and…
CRITERION CHALLENGE 2021: 27. Directed by Federico Fellini
Progress: 22/52
"You have to tell me who fathered this piece of shit!"
Following what the hypochondriacal Federico Fellini deemed a near-death experience in 1967, the venerated auteur was moved to reflect broadly on his formative adolescence and his seaside hometown of Rimini. A number of episodes from the resultant essay "La mia Rimini" ("My Rimini") form the spasmodic narrative spine of Fellini's 1973 international sensation Amarcord, a neologism of the director's making that loosely translates to "I remember". I won't attempt a traditional synopsis because there's not much plotting to speak of, as Fellini is essentially portraying enervation as a way of life (a working title might have been A Portrait…
Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical Amarcord rolls along like a caravan of humorous vignettes on existence under fascism in the small village of Borgo San Giuliano in the 1930s. It concentrates on the passing of a year in the life of the townfolk, observing the seasonal transitions and narrating numerous anecdotes about its inhabitants. There's cheerful high spirited ecstasies, impassioned disagreements and scattered tragedies which, although ostensibly concerning Titta (Bruno Zanin) and his large family, more or less encompasses even the more inconsequential characters in the town.
The movie commemorates youthfulness and childhood ambitions, but furthermore spotlights the shortcomings of the everyday people of the town, and it's these aspects which make the characters so captivating and human. Giuseppe Rotunno's cinematography…
Fellini's personal jewel. An ultimate requiem of the soul and a nostalgic look at the human condition, this film is an extraordinary achievement of Italian classic filmmaking.
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Federico Fellini; cinema’s maestro, who was raised on circuses rather than churches. It is only fitting that he would craft his Last Temptation not with crucifixes, but with street festivals and the bottoms of voluptuous women.
Returning to the fictive ‘small town in Italy’ of his early career coming of age story “I Vitelloni,” Fellini renders the previously sleepy setting anew in “Amarcord” as a burst of constant color and music.
Where the young men of “I Vitelloni” choose the arrested development of forever sitting at their mothers’ kitchen tables, the villagers of “Amarcord” are led into a perpetual neverwhere by the deliriously curated aesthetics of fascism.
It’s alluring to see the magical world of “Amarcord” as a Felliniesque ideal…
"I want a woman!" ~ Uncle Teo
The title "Amarcord" has been rendered in English as "I Remember," and quite rightly this a very personal reminisce about the past of writer-director Federico Fellini. It focuses on the 1930s when he was growing up in the Italian village of Rimini and Fascism was on the rise in Italy. By now, having seen seven of his films, I think I have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the "Maestro."
Typical of Fellini, the film is episodic, reflecting memories of childhood fantasies as well as real events and people. There are the schoolboy pranks, the meals and bickering at home, the youthful crush on the town beauty, and the allure…
I have never seen such a beautiful nostalgic film like this before. The longer you watch Amarcord, the more you'll get into it. It's just like being kids again, but it's not quite a coming of age film since it doesn't tell the story through any character but the city and the people.
The story takes place from the start of spring up to winter. Even if this film seems like a film about nostalgia, we can also see a point of view of Fellini in it, such as the failure of the education system, strict father, Facist and also present a defectiveness in proletarian which we can see from a scene when a worker says “My grandfather made bricks.…
Fellini has to be the most quintessentially Italian auteur there is, and this is easily his most quintessentially Italian film
