jovana-13676 Fellini's love for his home, hometown, family and cinema, it's all on display here. He takes us down the memory lane, down to his first wet dream. Gradisca! The most beautiful woman in town. He tries to get close to her in a dimly lit cinema. No wonder he went on to become a film director. If all of these characters, like the tobacconist who tried to smother him with her enormous boobs, were really around him while he was growing up, we can thank the circumstances for producing such a personality. Fellini's story is warm and humorous. There's a lot of self-humor in there, not only in the form of fart jokes. He mocks Italian mentality, fascism and family life, but at the same time, this is no anti-fascist propaganda, nor is his story set to disparage 'patriarchy' or male lust. He loves Italians and Italian food. Amarcord is a celebration of life, with very interesting female characters, unapologetic about their sexuality and sex life. And the same goes for men - the group masturbation scene is unforgettable!

Sergeant_Tibbs There's something about Fellini. I want to love his films, but they're so unashamedly self-indulgent that it's difficult to find something in them just for me. Not to say they aren't a joy for the most part, films like La Strada aside. Amarcord comes closest to love, but settles for really like. It's a difficult film at first, but once it's possible to latch onto recurring characters it gets much better. Each scene escalates into juvenile absurdity in a very entertaining way, but all are not equal as some vignettes feel like throwaways that don't add enough. The highlights are hilarious scenes like the man up in the tree yelling that he wants a woman. The sexual desires of the characters can be relatable, but it doesn't touch anything deep. It's all eventually just great entertainment. Regardless of its deliberately overdramatic topics, the rich cinematography pops in every moment. Maybe I'll find the Fellini film I love, but maybe they need a rewatch. 8 1/2 sounds built for me.8/10

mario_c Depicting what happens in an Italian little village in the middle 30's, Federico Fellini's AMARCORD is, at the same time, a sweet remembrance and a sarcastic and humorous satire. In fact this film describes very well the desires and irreverence of the youth (and probably here Fellini is depicting himself, when he was a young teenager) but it also portrays some social problems, the raise of Fascism in Italy and the difficulties of dysfunctional families. All of this with intense sarcasm and hilarious moments! The flatulence scenes for instance, can be disgusting to some, but I found them funny! I think there isn't a real main character in this film, because there're a few important to the plot. Of course the entire plot circles around TITTA (Bruno Zanin), but characters like MIRANDA or AURELIO, his parents, or even GRADISCA, his muse, are very important as well.Here Fellini does a film which is pure, intense, sarcastic, at parts grotesque, but essentially humorous and real! I score it 8/10!

Armand I am not one of Fellini fans. his colors are to power, his style - not very seductive. a world of forever carnival, grotesque silhouettes, a creepy universe, after promising first part of work. but Amarcord is different. it is a testimony. not of its director early years but testimony of a society, small, childish, cruel. a town. and its people. desires, politic, humor,fake adventures,a teenager and an advocate as guides in the womb of facts and impressions.a film about basic things. with nostalgic flavor of past, with aura of a lost age. it is a Fellini. but, in same measure, it is more.a kind of song from ambiguous land. or only reflection of a trip in the secret parts of past.