Amarcord (1973)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 123m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Puppela Maggio, Magali Noel
Synopsis:
The director trains his camera back on his youth in Rimini during the 30s in a series of episodes revolving around his home life with his builder father, his schooling, japes and crushes. Meanwhile a local expert fills us in on all the folklore and we catch glimpses of the wider political situation.
Review:
An evocative fantasia, reminiscent of I Vitelloni but also of bits of Otto e mezzo. It overstays its welcome slightly, but contains individual scenes of great power and humour, building up such an effective nostalgic glow that we too, like Gradisca, are sorry when she leaves. Appropriately enough we leave with her, and it seems our own present bears all the romantic appeal of her plain, balding policeman husband: in one scene Fellini brings memory and legend, embodied by Gradisca, smack up to date.
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 123m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Puppela Maggio, Magali Noel
Synopsis:
The director trains his camera back on his youth in Rimini during the 30s in a series of episodes revolving around his home life with his builder father, his schooling, japes and crushes. Meanwhile a local expert fills us in on all the folklore and we catch glimpses of the wider political situation.
Review:
An evocative fantasia, reminiscent of I Vitelloni but also of bits of Otto e mezzo. It overstays its welcome slightly, but contains individual scenes of great power and humour, building up such an effective nostalgic glow that we too, like Gradisca, are sorry when she leaves. Appropriately enough we leave with her, and it seems our own present bears all the romantic appeal of her plain, balding policeman husband: in one scene Fellini brings memory and legend, embodied by Gradisca, smack up to date.
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 123m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Puppela Maggio, Magali Noel
Synopsis:
The director trains his camera back on his youth in Rimini during the 30s in a series of episodes revolving around his home life with his builder father, his schooling, japes and crushes. Meanwhile a local expert fills us in on all the folklore and we catch glimpses of the wider political situation.
Review:
An evocative fantasia, reminiscent of I Vitelloni but also of bits of Otto e mezzo. It overstays its welcome slightly, but contains individual scenes of great power and humour, building up such an effective nostalgic glow that we too, like Gradisca, are sorry when she leaves. Appropriately enough we leave with her, and it seems our own present bears all the romantic appeal of her plain, balding policeman husband: in one scene Fellini brings memory and legend, embodied by Gradisca, smack up to date.