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Amarcord

1973

Federico Fellini

Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brescia, Ciccio Ingrassia ...

8.0

19,962

Comedy. Drama It explores the life of a small Italian coastal town in the 1930s, during the Fascist period.

	Media	Author	Review
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Amarcord' may possibly be Federico Fellini's most marvelous film... extravagantly funny. (...) It's a film of exhilarating beauty".
		Paul Zimmerman Newsweek	"Amarcord is the most beautiful movie Fellini has ever made and a landmark in the history of film. It is a sprawling, hilarious, touching evocation of life".
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"If ever there was a movie made entirely out of nostalgia and joy, by a filmmaker at the heedless height of his powers, that movie is Federico Fellini’s 'Amarcord' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Steve Rose The Guardian	"It's a bit like listening to a granddad's old stories (...) [There are] a few memorable set pieces, but overall, it's dated pretty badly, as any nostalgia piece is destined to do."
		David Parkinson Empire	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Glenn Heath Jr. Slant	"'Amarcord' lovingly pays tribute to the way memory fades away and imagination takes over, a process that grows more intoxicating with age (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		The Washington Post	"'Amarcord' may be a more perfect summary of 'Felliniesque' (...) And it proves that 'Felliniesque' means much more than just a shorthand term for the bizarre."
		Time Out	"Fellini at his ripest and loudest (...) With generous helpings of soap opera and burlesque, he generally gets his better effects by orchestrating his colourful cast of characters around the town square"
		Tom Dawson BBC	"Bawdily amusing (...) There are still images to treasure (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"The result is a grand, passionate mess. The sense of decay almost disintegrates the art (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Uneven, loosely structured, and at times pretty vulgar as well as sentimental, but with some touching and lovely episodes"

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