Amarcord

Amarcord [I Remember] (Criterion #4).
1973 Janus Films and F.C. Produzioni.
Starring: Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Director: Federico Fellini
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The winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1974 Academy Awards (among other accolades), Fellini's Amarcord is a delightful coming of age film set in the late 1930s in Rimini, Italy. Largely set around a year in the life of the Biondi family, where the boys are out of control deliquents, mother is ill, father is unable to cope with all of the changes happening in his personal life; not to mention any Mussolini-related issues, and the grandfather is growing senile. Another uncle has been institutionalized, but is allowed to spend a day in the country with the rest of his family...where he climbs to the top of the only tree for miles around and bellows "I want a woman!" over and over.

Chaos, violence, and confusion lie just ahead in the near future, but the Biondi family and the rest of the townspeople have one year to establish some long-lasting memories, and they all make the most of it.

Highly recommended film.