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.
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04/27/09
Amarcord (1974)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:36
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Pupella Maggio, Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin, Josianne Tanzilli
Director: Federico Fellini
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Reviews for Amarcord
[S]imply nonsensical to me. Fascists are idiots, Catholic priests are clowns -- I agree with this. So why don't I feel it?
12/13/09
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.
12/22/09
Top CriticFellini at his ripest and loudest recreates a fantasy-vision of his home town during the fascist period.
06/24/06
A pictorial weaving of the bizarre fragments of Fellini's imagination and memory.
07/30/03
Amarcord is Fellini's scrapbook of memories culled from his own life and it is completely engaging and delightful.
03/17/09
One of Fellini's wisest, warmest and most wonderful.
02/03/06
I'm not sure how Amarcord played in the '70s, but now it feels like an affectionate parody of Italian movie conventions.
03/27/09
It's the more fanciful and lighthearted first half of the film (obviously a big inspiration for some of Woody Allen's work) that works the best.
06/19/01
Makes me feel like a boy everytime I see it.
07/27/07
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.
03/27/09
Fellini's whimsical and tender semi-autobiographical film is one of his best works.
09/24/01
No review available.
02/08/05
Uneven, loosely structured, and at times pretty vulgar as well as sentimental, but with some touching and lovely episodes.
12/03/08
Top CriticThis collection of vignettes loosely based on the director’s adolescence in Rimini feels as if its creator is vividly recalling every fleeting sensation of his early life.
12/03/08
This veers from the heartfelt to the satirical, the scathing to the loving, the funny to the melancholy -- in short, it's everything that great cinema should be.
09/18/04
No review available.
08/09/02
It's one of the noted Italian directors more vibrant films that captures him at his most playful and incisive.
03/01/09
In his own unique style, Federico Fellini has created a beautiful work of art that is as amusing as it is inspiring.
08/29/03
Amarcord could be viewed as one of the most humane films of 20th Century, and it keeps its general feel good atmosphere despite depicting having many uncomfortable, melancholic and even tragic moments.
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