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Release date 18th December 1973
Country : Italy/France
Running time : 127 mins
Genre : Drama/Comedy
Starring Pupella Maggio, Armanda Brancia
Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Directed by Federico Fellini
A year in the life of an Italian town in the 1930s.
A nostalgic glimpse of an Italian seaside town at the time of the rise of Fascism not that different from the director's childhood in Rimini. It is episodic without real focus but the characters and images are vibrant and often funny.
Release date 18th December 1973
Country : Italy/France
Running time : 127 mins
Genre : Drama/Comedy
Starring Pupella Maggio, Armanda Brancia
Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Directed by Federico Fellini
A year in the life of an Italian town in the 1930s.
A nostalgic glimpse of an Italian seaside town at the time of the rise of Fascism not that different from the director's childhood in Rimini. It is episodic without real focus but the characters and images are vibrant and often funny.
The title loosely translated means "I remember" appropriate to one of the most auto-biographical directors of world cinema.
Peaks of invention separated by raucous valleys of low comedy : Sight and Sound
Hitchcock once said that he wanted to play his audiences like a piano. Fellini requires the whole orchestra. Roger Ebert
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