Amarcord [DCP]

Director: Federico Fellini

1973 / 123min / DCP

The first of Guerra’s three collaborations with Fellini, who he had been born only two months before and a few miles away from, is an affectionate, richly sensual film reminiscence of a year in the life of the bygone world of its director’s adolescence—a middle-class household in the Adriatic coast town of Rimini in the 1930s. Fellini's film is collection of quotidian anecdotes and larger-than-life daydreams, as befits a movie that aims to approximate the atmosphere of the collective fantasy that was Mussolini’s Italy. Nino Rota’s score sets the time, while Fellini’s gliding camera tracks an intricate dance of the hundreds of social rounds that make up the daily life of a city.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of The Memory Palace