Where to watch Amarcord (1973)
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In a 1930s Italian seaside town, an adolescent boy navigates family tensions, school, friendships, and an ever-changing cast of eccentric locals. Everyday life unfolds through comic, sensual, political, and occasionally fantastical episodes, creating a nostalgic portrait of youth and a community living under Fascist rule.
Cast: Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Bruno Zanin, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Giuseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla
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Trivia & production notes
- Italian critic Giovanni Grazzini wrote that Fellini showed himself to be an artist at his peak, with the film displaying autobiographical content that revealed deeper understanding of both historical fact and the experience of an entire generation.
- The film was screened at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.
- After winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1975, Amarcord was quickly acquired for distribution internationally and proved to be Fellini's last major commercial success.
- British critic Russell Davies compared the film to works by Thornton Wilder and Dylan Thomas, noting that Fellini shot the entire piece in Roman film studios rather than on location.
- Roger Ebert gave the film a four-star rating and ranked it fourth on his best films of 1973 list, later adding it to his Great Movies collection.
- Cahiers du cinéma magazine voted Amarcord number 50 on its list of the 100 Greatest Films in 2008.
- Vincent Canby praised the film as possibly Fellini's most marvelous work, describing it as a funny and dreamlike evocation of a year in a small Italian coastal town during the 1930s.
- The British Film Institute ranked Amarcord 30th among directors in their 2012 Sight & Sound polls of the greatest films ever made.
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