Amanda (2022 film) explained

Amanda
Director:Carolina Cavalli
Cinematography:Lorenzo Levrini
Editing:Babak Jalali
Music:Niccolò Contessa
Distributor:I Wonder Pictures
Runtime:94 minutes
Country:Italy
Language:Italian
Gross:$133,108[1]

Amanda is a 2022 Italian coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Carolina Cavalli.

The film premiered in the Horizons Extra section of the 79th Venice Film Festival,[2] [3] and was later screened at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[4] It was released theatrically in Italy on 13 October 2022 by I Wonder Pictures.[5] [6] [7]

Cast

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A is for Amanda, an amusingly absurd coming-of-age comedy that offers poignant observations and positions director Carolina Cavalli as a talent to watch."[8] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100, based on 10 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[9]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described it as "a film of style and surface, and these are cleverly created and maintained."[10] Wendy Ide of Screen Daily called the film "a refreshingly unconventional and acidic deadpan comic portrait of an offbeat female friendship."[11] Beatrice Loayza of The New York Times selected the film as New York Times Critics' Pick, writing, "Amanda is absurd and abrasive, but also sympathetic thanks to Porcaroli's performance."[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amanda (2023) . 18 October 2023 . Box Office Mojo.
  2. News: Bradshaw . Peter . Peter Bradshaw . 2022-09-05 . Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething . 2022-12-30 . The Guardian.
  3. Barraclough . Leo . 2022-09-03 . Carolina Cavalli's 'Amanda' Debuts First-Look Clip Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) . 2022-12-30 . Variety.
  4. Web site: Saito . Stephen . 2022-09-16 . TIFF 2022 Review: Carolina Cavalli's "Amanda" Brilliantly Stands Alone . 2022-12-30 . The Moveable Fest.
  5. News: Benedetta Porcaroli e la solitudine: "Ai giovani dico uscite di casa". la Repubblica. Chiara. Ugolini. 5 September 2022. 12 December 2022. it.
  6. Web site: Ferretti . Chiara . 2022-09-05 . Amanda: recensione del film con Benedetta Porcaroli e Michele Bravi . 2022-12-30 . Cinefilos.it . it-IT.
  7. News: Amanda: Benedetta Porcaroli e quel (bel) film sul diritto all'irregolarità. Damiano. Panattoni. 5 September 2022. The HotCorn. 12 December 2022. it.
  8. Web site: Amanda . 18 October 2023 . Rotten Tomatoes.
  9. Web site: Amanda . 24 August 2023 . Metacritic.
  10. News: Bradshaw . Peter . Peter Bradshaw . 5 September 2022 . Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething . . 5 July 2023.
  11. Web site: Ide . Wendy . 5 September 2022 . 'Amanda': Venice Review . 5 July 2023 . . limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20230824215822/https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/amanda-venice-review/5173507.article . 24 August 2023 . live.
  12. News: Loayza . Beatrice . 6 July 2023 . 'Amanda' Review: My Loneliness Is Killing Me . . 7 July 2023 . limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20230706120236/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/movies/amanda-review.html/ . 6 July 2023 . live.

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