AMARCORD Review II

AMARCORD Review: Part I
There are the fantasy and tall tale sequences at the hotel, narrated by the Lawyer (Luigi Rossi) — one of several Fourth Wall breakers — the fantasy marriage of fat boy Ciccio to sexy Aldina at the behest of the floral image of Mussolini, and the townsfolk rowing out to see the fantastical America-bound luxury liner, The Rex.
Nino Rota’s score is the best thing in the film, though Giuseppe Rotunno’s cinematography is not far behind, especially in the sunset scene where Uncle Teo is coaxed down from the apple tree and back to the asylum.
The Criterion Collection’s two-disc DVD is a great improvement on the 1998 single-disc edition. It is a radiant film transfer, [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 24, 2007   
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