Amarcord
Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedydrama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semiautobiographical comingofage 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 in 1930s Fascist Italy. The films title pronouncedamarkrd is a Romagnol neologism for I remember.
A young woman hanging clothes on a line happily points out the arrival of manine or puffballs floating on the wind. The old man pottering beside her replies, When puffballs come, cold winters done. In the village square, schoolboys jump around trying to pluck puffballs out of the air. Giudizio Aristide Caporale, the town idiot, looks into the camera and recites a poem to spring and the swirling, drifting manine.At the hairdressers, a Fascist has just had his head newly shaved when Fiorella arrives to accompany her sister Gradisca Magali Nol, the village beauty, to the traditional bonfire celebrating spring. As night falls, the inhabitants of Borgo make their way to the village square where Fellini presents his comic characters the blind accordion player Domenica Pertica relentlessly tormented by schoolboys Volpina Josiane Tanzilli, the stringy blond nymphomaniac the stout and buxom tobacconist Maria Antonietta Beluzzi Titta Bruno Zanin, the rosycheeked adolescent protagonist based on Fellinis childhood friend and Aurelio Armando Brancia, Tittas father, a construction foreman of workingclass background. Modest and reserved, Aurelio responds in frenzied anger to Tittas pranks while Miranda Pupella Maggio, his wife, always comes to her sons defence. Mirandas brother, Lallo Nando Orfei, lives with Tittas family, sponging off his brotherinlaw. In tow are Tittas grandfather Peppino Ianigro, a likeable old goat with an eye on the familys young maid, and a street vendor, Biscein Gennaro Ombra, the towns inveterate liar. ........
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