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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Federico Fellini |
| Stars: |
Magali Noel |
| Actors: |
Bruno Zanin |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Classic · Drama · Italian |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Criterion Collection |
| UPC: |
037429095034 |
| Release Date: |
1974 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 7min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Italian |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set, 2hr 3min Release Company: Image Entertainment, Inc. (September 05, 2006) UPC: 715515018227 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Criterion Collection, 2hr 7min Release Company: Home Vision (June 29, 1999) UPC: 037429095034 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Federico Fellini |
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Professional Reviews
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(09/01/1974, p.244-5, John Russell Taylor): "...Fellini catches us by attacking where he is strongest, at gut-level..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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 colorful 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 penciled 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 wanders in and out of the animated provincial landscape, meeting assorted c... |
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