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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] |
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]
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]