Amarcord (1974)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:35
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.3/10
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
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[S]imply nonsensical to me. Fascists are idiots, Catholic priests are clowns -- I agree with this. So why don't I feel it? Full Review |
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Fellini is so bountiful with incident and observation that he makes most other film makers seem stingy. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Amarcord will make you howl with laughter and then choke back a tear. And all the while you’ll be building your own memories of this landmark movie. Full Review |
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Watching the movie feels like flipping through a cartoon sketchbook of Fellini's vivid remembrances and formative experiences. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
I'm not sure how Amarcord played in the '70s, but now it feels like an affectionate parody of Italian movie conventions. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Amarcord is Fellini's scrapbook of memories culled from his own life and it is completely engaging and delightful. Full Review |
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Orthodox Fellini lovers will give primacy to La Strada or La Dolce Vita, but Amarcord has its fans, and it's easy to see why. Full Review |
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B+ |
It's one of the noted Italian directors more vibrant films that captures him at his most playful and incisive. Full Review |
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5/5 |
He [Director Fellini] leaves us with the hope that the human comedy just may be able to survive everything. Full Review |
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What's so surprising about this film is just how loose and effortlessly enjoyable it is, despite all its ideas and images. It's one of the director's very best. Full Review |
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This Fellini opus is his most accessible to mass audiences since La Dolce Vita. Full Review |
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Uneven, loosely structured, and at times pretty vulgar as well as sentimental, but with some touching and lovely episodes. Full Review |
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5/6 |
This 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. Full Review |
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What positions the film among Fellini's greatest are its punctuation points of mysterious beauty. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Makes me feel like a boy everytime I see it.
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3/4 |
A memorable last chapter to Fellini's nostalgic screen reminiscences that began in 1953 with I Vitelloni. Full Review |
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Amarcord, easily one of Fellini's masterpieces, is at once a personal memory film and a more detached social scrutinization of Italian society, specifically the political isolation and cultural provincialism that helped Fascism rise to power. Full Review |
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A vulgar, crassly funny, tender, always affectionate nostalgia trip, Fellini style. Full Review |
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