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Sentimental Captivating Atmospheric Humorous Offbeat Sexual
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Coming of Age Human Nature Small Town Life Lifestyle Youth Family Relations Family Life Mind and Soul more...
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Comedy Drama Foreign Postmodernism
Time/Period:
20th Century 30s
Place:
Italy
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Amarcord, 1973

Starring: Pupella Maggio, Magali Noel

Directed by: Federico Fellini

Written by: Federico Fellini

Language: Italian, Greek

Country: Italy, France

Runtime: 123 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.9

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The mood of Amarcord is sentimental, captivating, and sexual. The plot centers around small town life, human nature, and coming of age. It is a drama, comedy, and foreign movie. Stylistically, Amarcord is postmodernist, is episodic, and is surreal. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is Italy. Amarcord happens in the 1930s. The movie is known for being an Oscar winner, a masterpiece, and critically acclaimed.

Summary of Amarcord

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 spring arrives, the village holds a festival in which it burns a symbolic bonfire and celebrates new life. This gathering in the central square is the first of many others throughout the film. Each time the community assembles, its colorful members show themselves in full force, boasting their bizarre, disjointed personalities--and pure mischief is the result. Several of the village ladies wear their eyebrows penciled on in high, provocative arches, a style that seethes sex and drama, coaxing the camera to follow them. The film takes on a circusy, chaotic tone, making it difficult to see a clear plot structure; Amarcord instead breaks up into several memorably surreal sequences, a few of which follow a young man named Titta (Bruno Zanin) who wanders in and out of the animated provincial landscape, meeting assorted crazy characters and obsessing over sex. The beautiful clashes with the grotesque and politics and family matters blend together while sex is offset by violence in the inimitable style of Italy's late master of cinema, whose tour de force won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.