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Seeing Fellini’s Amarcord Was the Greatest Cultural Moment of My Life

July 17, 2020

Doyle, Roddy (Author)

Catholic Church; Films; Writing; Realism

In this video, author Roddy Doyle describes the experience of seeing Fellini’s Amarcord for the first time as a boy in Dublin. Growing up in Ireland, at that time a strict Catholic country, it was revelatory for him to see the religion ridiculed in the subversive comedy-drama. The combination of the beautiful and the grotesque mesmerized the young Doyle, who found the film “a great antidote” to the strict environment of his own religious high school.


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