“Amarcord may possibly be Federico Fellini’s most marvelous film. It’s an extravagantly funny, sometimes dreamlike evocation of a year in the life of a small Italian coastal town in the nineteen-thirties, not as it literally was, perhaps, but as it is recalled by a director with a superstar’s access to the resources of the Italian film industry and a piper’s command over our imaginations.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Fellini's ode to his youth and satirical depiction of small-town Italy during 1930s fascism is considered his most personal film. Co-written with poet and scribe Tonino Guerra, and shot at Rome's Cinecittà Studios, it is set to Nino Rota's nostalgic score. 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 Nino Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award ®–winning Amarcord (1975 Best Foreign Language Film) remains one of cinema's enduring treasures.
The film is restored by Cinema Ritrovato-Cineteca di Bologna and premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2019.
DCP print from Luce Cinecitta`. Courtesy of Janus Films.
Image: Courtesy of Janus Films