Amanda (2022 film)

Film by Carolina Cavalli

Amanda

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Carolina Cavalli
Written by| Carolina Cavalli
Produced by|

* Moreno Zani
* Malcom Pagani
* Mario Gianani
* Lorenzo Gangarossa
* Antonio Celsi
* Annamaria Morelli

Starring|

* Benedetta Porcaroli
* Galatea Bellugi
* Michele Bravi
* Monica Nappo
* Margherita Maccapani Missoni
* Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Cinematography| Lorenzo Levrini
Edited by| Babak Jalali
Music by| Niccolò Contessa

Production
companies

* Elsinore Film
* Wildside
* Tenderstories
* Charades
* I Wonder Pictures

Distributed by| I Wonder Pictures

Release dates

* 5 September 2022 (2022-09-05) (Venice)
* 13 October 2022 (2022-10-13) (Italy)

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]

## Cast

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* Benedetta Porcaroli as Amanda
* Galatea Bellugi as Rebecca
* Michele Bravi as Dude
* Monica Nappo [it] as Sofia
* Margherita Maccapani Missoni as Marina
* Ana Cecilia Ponce as Judy
* Amelia Elisabetta Biuso as Stella
* Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Viola

## Reception

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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]

## References

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1. ^ "Amanda (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
2. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (5 September 2022). "Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
3. ^ Barraclough, Leo (3 September 2022). "Carolina Cavalli's 'Amanda' Debuts First-Look Clip Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
4. ^ Saito, Stephen (16 September 2022). "TIFF 2022 Review: Carolina Cavalli's "Amanda" Brilliantly Stands Alone". The Moveable Fest. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
5. ^ Ugolini, Chiara (5 September 2022). "Benedetta Porcaroli e la solitudine: "Ai giovani dico uscite di casa"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2022.
6. ^ Ferretti, Chiara (5 September 2022). "Amanda: recensione del film con Benedetta Porcaroli e Michele Bravi". Cinefilos.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
7. ^ Panattoni, Damiano (5 September 2022). "Amanda: Benedetta Porcaroli e quel (bel) film sul diritto all'irregolarità". The HotCorn (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2022.
8. ^ "Amanda". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
9. ^ "Amanda". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
10. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (5 September 2022). "Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
11. ^ Ide, Wendy (5 September 2022). "'Amanda': Venice Review". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
12. ^ 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.

## External links

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* Amanda at IMDb

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