This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures. —Janus Films
“When Mr. Fellini is working in peak condition, as he is in Amarcord,” wrote Vincent Canby in The New York Times, “he somehow brings out the best in us.
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Amarcord – Italy, 1973, 124 min, Dir. Federico Fellini, Rated R |