amarcord......

ok, so last night we gathered with a small group of our friends to watch fellini's amarcord........a curious film made in 1974, but set in 1937 italy, complete with fascists........i liked the mamma....miranda was her name........and she could be especially touching and curiously mean.........well, that is a combo i am said to understand quite well......we watched with english subtitles....and i enjoyed istening to the brisk italian almost as much as the film's action about life in a small town.......but at some point the subtitles disapeared and we couldn't make them come back....and we were forced to watch the remainder of the movie with dubbed english........dubbed english never matches the lips of the actors.....and that obviously detracted......oh well.......i also liked the part when the 15 year old son of the featured family, as well as his friends, are led into some sort of 'open' confession with the parish priest.....and the priest basically questions them each relentlessly about just what parts of their bodies they have 'touched'........that probably happpened to somebody, so i suppose it is only funny if it never happened to you.............