Amanda is a 2022 Italian coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Carolina Cavalli.
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Directed by | Carolina Cavalli |
Written by | Carolina Cavalli |
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Cinematography | Lorenzo Levrini |
Edited by | Babak Jalali |
Music by | Niccolò Contessa |
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Distributed by | I Wonder Pictures |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | $133,108[1] |
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
edit- Benedetta Porcaroli as Amanda
- Galatea Bellugi as Rebecca
- Michele Bravi as Dude
- Monica Nappo as Sofia
- Margherita Maccapani Missoni as Marina
- Ana Cecilia Ponce as Judy
- Amelia Elisabetta Biuso as Stella
- Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Viola
Reception
editOn 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]
References
edit- ^ "Amanda (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (5 September 2022). "Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Barraclough, Leo (3 September 2022). "Carolina Cavalli's 'Amanda' Debuts First-Look Clip Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Saito, Stephen (16 September 2022). "TIFF 2022 Review: Carolina Cavalli's "Amanda" Brilliantly Stands Alone". The Moveable Fest. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Ugolini, Chiara (5 September 2022). "Benedetta Porcaroli e la solitudine: "Ai giovani dico uscite di casa"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ Ferretti, Chiara (5 September 2022). "Amanda: recensione del film con Benedetta Porcaroli e Michele Bravi". Cinefilos.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Panattoni, Damiano (5 September 2022). "Amanda: Benedetta Porcaroli e quel (bel) film sul diritto all'irregolarità". The HotCorn (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "Amanda". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Amanda". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (5 September 2022). "Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ Ide, Wendy (5 September 2022). "'Amanda': Venice Review". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ Loayza, Beatrice (6 July 2023). "'Amanda' Review: My Loneliness Is Killing Me". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
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