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Amarcord Details

1973

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Starring	Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noel
Director	Federico Fellini
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Amarcord

Federico Fellini's AMARCORD, an acclaimed semiautobiographical episodic drama, examines life in a small Adriatic village just before Mussolini's reign in the 1930s. As the weather changes and spring arrives, the village holds a festival in which it burns a symbolic bonfire and celebrates new life. This gathering in the central square is the first of many others throughout the film. Each time the community assembles, its colourful members show themselves in full force, boasting their bizarre, disjointed personalities--and pure mischief is the result. Several of the village ladies wear their eyebrows pencilled on in high, provocative arches, a style that seethes sex and drama, coaxing the camera to follow them. The film takes on a circusy, chaotic tone, making it difficult to see a clear plot structure; AMARCORD instead breaks up into several memorably surreal sequences, a few of which follow a young man named Titta (Bruno Zanin, who represent the director himself), who wanders in and out of the animated provincial landscape obsessing over sex, meeting assorted crazy characters such as his parents, his lascivious grandfather, a dizzy hairdresser in search of her "Gary Cooper," and a mad uncle who straddles a tree demanding sex. The beautiful clashes with the grotesque and politics and family matters blend together while sex is offset by violence in the inimitable style of Italy's late master of cinema whose tour de force won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Starring	Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noel
Director	Federico Fellini
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 58 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Italian
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1973 To Rent: DVD: 27 Sep 2004

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- Fellini at his ripest and loudest recreates a fantasy-vision of his home town during the fascist period. With... read more on Time Out
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  Dubbing gaff
  
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  As italian as spaghetti
  
  Reminded me very much in style of 'Roma'. Although I did hope and expect for more of a plot in this one. Still it's quite from the everyday run of ... read more »
  
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  Didn't do it for me
  
  I had difficulties at the start over getting rid of the default setting of awful dubbed English that was different from the corresponding sub-titles In English... read more »
  
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  If you see only one Fellini, see this.
  
  Fellini movies traditionally have no plot, the camera wanders around bumping into bizarre often grotesque characters who make their point, be it about religion... read more »
  
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  Federico Fellini's AMARCORD, an acclaimed semiautobiographical episodic drama, examines life in a small Adriatic village just before Mussolini's reign in the 1930s. As the weather changes and spring arrives, the village holds a festival in which it burns a symbolic bonfire and celebrates new life. ...