Amarcord - Criterion Collection Rating: Release Date: 31 March, 1998 Retail Price: $39.95 OUR Price: $35.99 You SAVE: $3.96! Cast: Magali Noël Bruno Zanin Federico Fellini

Amarcord - Criterion Collection Reviews

---

Rimini Remembered: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring
Federico Fellini's "Amardord" is a series of sketches about his youth in a seaside town Rimini in the 1930s. In this regard it reminds another favorite film of mine, "Fellini's Roma". After repeat viewing, I can understand why many viewers may not like Fellini, especially his so called "later films" -"Amarcord" may seem too crowded, too loud, too vulgar, too bawdy, and too self-indulgent. It is all true, it is. But so is life - loud but tender, vulgar but touching, self-indulgent but full of humor, love and compassion to the film's eccentric characters. It's been said a lot about memorable scenes and images in "Amarcord": yes, the famous peacock that spreads its plumage on the snow, a magnificent ocean liner that is been greeted by the townspeople, a local tobacconist - a woman of such size and proportions that it could be simply dangerous for the teenage boys to try and make their dreams about her come true. I love "Amarcord" - always have - perhaps, Fellini played all the right notes for me or more likely, Nino Rota wrote his best musical score for the film which could be the best score ever. My favorite image in the film - Gradisca's (local beautician) walk accompanied by Rota's music. What is it in the way Italian women walk, the way their hips sway? Monica Belucci in "Malena", Sofia Lauren in "Marriage Italian Style"? And Magali Noël as object of every man's in Rimini desire - Gradisca ("Help Yourself").

Wonderful film - by the power of his magic, by the light of his memory, the great master saved the town where he was young and happy. We can visit it as often as we'd like and it won't go away and disappear - Fellini's Rimini is captured forever.

9.5/10 (4.5/5)



Great..
I recently checked this movie out from the library and was amazed by it.. the story line is strange, but delightiful.. packed full of perversion..
the characters in this movie are full of life..

More Customer Reviews (21 total)

You like Amarcord - Criterion Collection? Then You'll Love This Booty! Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection La Dolce Vita Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection Jigoku - Criterion Collection Find more DVD's in: Classics Art House & International > By Country > Italy Fully Loaded DVDs Fully Loaded DVDs > Criterion Collection All Categories (13 total)