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Amarcord

Amarcord

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Key Information
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
Languages
Original Language: Italian
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set, 2hr 3min
Release Company: Image Entertainment, Inc. (September 05, 2006)
UPC: 715515018227
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS: Criterion Collection, 2hr 7min
Release Company: Home Vision (June 29, 1999)
UPC: 037429095034
Credits
Screenwriter: Federico Fellini
Professional Reviews
: (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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