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This inclusiveness knows no bounds. Everyone lives together in Amarcord, from the town drunk to the bizarre count in his palazzo. There is the sense of an ending whenever--because of death or marriage to an outsider--anyone leaves the town. Everyone gathers at funerals and marriages to see them off; every evening, they take their stroll along the town's main street, nodding to everyone else. The city Fellini used for filming had some things in it that were obviously postwar--Amarcord is set in the thirties--but he didn't need to change or cover...
...AMARCORD ["I Remember"] is Fellini's most ingratiating film so far--the return to scenes of his childhood near Rimini on Italy's Adriatic coast seems to have mellowed him. His fascisti are Verdi caricatures who can be deflated by a phonograph blaring out the Internationale from the bell tower in the town's main square as Mussolini begins a speech; the worst they do to the perpetrator is give him a humiliating dose of castor oil. The strangest and most wonderful things happen in the city of Amarcord, but they are all good things: A great ocean liner sails...
...AMARCORD. A great movie. Federico Fellini's autobiographical fantasy about growing up in the seaside town of Rimini is lavish, pungent, full to bursting with the kind of encompassing, consuming affection for people that is the property of the true poet...
...directors, Fellini, now 54, has shown other, younger film makers the possibility of finding such a space. It has been argued that Fellini has spent too much time in this space, resifting the same phantoms of personal history and illusion. This has been said as well, and predictably, about Amarcord. What is so different, and so significant, is a whole new strengthening of tone and depth of feeling, the exhilaration of an artist re-exploring old territory with heightened powers. In a real sense, it seems that much of Fellini's work over the past decade has been...
...AMARCORD. They say that I have made a political movie. Actually, Amarcord conveys mostly the emotive, psychological part of being fascist-fascism as mental sluggishness, as a loss of imagination. But the movie is also nostalgic...