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- The title itself, Amarcord, comes from the Romagna dialect, literally translating to the phrase ‘I remember’, centering the phenomenon of memory itself as the films thematic core and driving force behind many of the ideas in the film.
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Dec 24, 2023 · The word “Amarcord” is transformed from the Italian “amare” which means “to love” and “ricordo” which means “memory.”. Fellini coined this term to represent a nostalgic and affectionate remembrance of his childhood growing up in the Italian coastal town of Rimini.
Amarcord (Italian: [amarˈkɔrd]) is a 1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini) [2] in 1930s Fascist Italy.
Amarcord is a neologism he contrived, which comes closest to the Emiliano-Romagnolo dialect phrase mi ricordo (I remember). Fellini, a great liar, denied this origin, claiming instead that it was a mysterious, cabalistic word, linked to invention rather than memory.
That’s why so often in a Fellini film the actors don’t seem simply to be walking, but subtly moving to an unheard melody. They seem to be able to hear the soundtrack. “Amarcord” is like a long dance number, interrupted by dialogue, public events and meals.
- Films Within The Film
- The Narrative Line
- The Visit of The Fascist Functionary
- Fantasies
- Gradisca and The Grand Hotel
- Who’s The “I” in “I Remember?”
Fellini loves movies as much as the circus, and so do the residents of his remembered Rimini. Characters in the film address and refer to the owner of the town’s movie theater, Cinema Fulgor, as “Ronald Coleman”; he wears a trench coat and hat similar to the one that British actor often wore in films. (In “Rimini, My Home Town,” Fellini describes h...
Other than the seasons bracketed by the just-released puffy poplar seeds, there is only one linear action in the film: for most of it, Titta is a tall boy in short pants, often playing with his friends or being a kid in the family; just before his mother’s death he goes to knickerbockers. It would be common for boys to wear shorts in summer and kni...
The longest sequence in the film – the arrival of the Fascist functionary and the rest of that day – begins 45 minutes into the film and runs 16 minutes; it ends a few minutes before the film’s midpoint. It is the film’s centerpiece. Even though it is comic and at moments absurd, it is a serious critique of Fascism and the ease with which ordinary ...
Ciccio’s is not the only fantasy in Amarcord. When the cars of the VII Mille Miglia roar through the piazza at night, the town’s people cheer on the drivers, some of whose names they know and call out; they hold up encouraging placards. The camera zooms in on Titta and his friends; Titta is lighted more brightly than the others. There is a cut to a...
Many of the memorable characters in the film – the motorcyclist, the nymphomaniac Volpina, the foul-tempered blind accordionist, the photographer with his tripod – appear often but are never fully developed as characters; we don’t enter their stories; they are simply vital parts of the ostensibly remembered world of Rimini in 1933. They were around...
The “I” of any autobiography is not the same person that the autobiography is about, if for no other reason than the subject of the autobiography had not a clue, anywhere along the line, of what was coming next, let alone where the story was heading. Fellini’s title acknowledges that temporal perspective: we cannot help but see the past but through...
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.
Fellini’s fourth and final winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the somewhat autobiographical Amarcord (the title is a neologism for ‘I remember’ contrived from his childhood vernacular) is a tumult of stories of life over the course of a year in a village near Rimini in the early 1930s, often featuring lustful teenager Titta ...
