Amarcord

Amarcord is set in the Italian seaside town of Rimini during the early 1930s, under Mussolini's fascist regime. The film follows Titta, an adolescent boy, through roughly a year of provincial life: family arguments, school, church, village celebrations, and the rituals of the Fascist Saturday. Around him moves a large gallery of townspeople, including his stern father and indulgent mother, his uncles, a blind musician, the local madman, and the voluptuous woman who runs the tobacconist's shop and dominates the fantasies of the town's boys. Comic and fantastical moments are woven into the everyday texture of the town, which Fellini recreates at Cinecittà as a dreamlike version of the place he remembered.

Federico Fellini directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra. Released in 1973, the film is the seventeenth of the twenty he directed, coming after Roma and before City of Women. Franco Cristaldi produced, and the large credited cast runs to 68 performers, among them Pupella Maggio as Miranda, Armando Brancia as Aurelio, Magali Noël as Gradisca, and Ciccio Ingrassia and Nando Orfei as Titta's uncles. The production was Italian and French.

The film's reception has been strong and durable. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.8 from about 51,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.9 from roughly 1,200 votes. Critics rated it higher still, 8.8 from 49 reviews, a sign of how consistently it has been valued since its release.