FELLINI: FOUR FILMS
AMARCORD
Q&A with UK professors, Raymond De Luca, a specialist in international film studies, and Matteo Benassi, a specialist in Italian film.
"One of the director’s best-loved creations." —Criterion
"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." —Empire Magazine
"[Fellini] leaves us with the hope that the human comedy just may be able to survive everything." —Los Angeles Times
Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecittà’s studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge. Sketching a gallery of warmly observed comic caricatures, Fellini affectionately evokes a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, even as he sends up authority figures representing church and state, satirizing a country stultified by Fascism. Winner of Fellini’s fourth Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.