From the little I know about Federico Fellini, the charismatic raconteur believed that life was a carnival, and the comedic film Amarcord is a tribute to that often gay existence. Droll and irreverent with just a touch of darkness, Fellini dedicates this film to a single year of his teenage existence; with the film both beginning and ending with floating puffballs, the harbingers of spring, in the air. A delightful cinematic experience, it generated numerous guffaws from the audience and the one scene with nudity garnered perhaps the biggest laughs of all. If I was deserted on a Pacific Island and was allowed to have the works of half a dozen auteurs as company, Fellini's films would be one of my choices.
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