SummaryBorn into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, 24-year-old combative Amanda (Benedetta Porcaroli) searches for boyfriends but only finds misfits who are repelled by her intensity. She longs for connection but has never had a friend of her own… until she discovers a long lost childhood bond, spu... Read More
Directed By:Carolina Cavalli
Written By:Carolina Cavalli
Amanda
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Universal Acclaim
81
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Generally Favorable
6.5
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Jul 6, 2023
90
Amanda is absurd and abrasive, but also sympathetic thanks to Porcaroli’s performance. She’s a flaming narcissist with a gooey core of vulnerability, a being forged by the fear of making herself known.
Jul 6, 2023
83
In a world where everyone feels lonely, Amanda might be our most authentic avatar, someone willing to get super weird in the hopes it will lead somewhere great. For Cavalli and “Amanda,” the results speak for themselves: The film, and its titular heroine, are great indeed.
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Generally Favorable
73% Positive
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May 23, 2024
9
Amanda is absurd and abrasive, but also sympathetic thanks to Porcaroli’s performance. She’s a flaming narcissist with a gooey core of vulnerability, a being forged by the fear of making herself known.
May 29, 2024
7
I thought it was a good movie. After watching this movie, you will probably get something that makes you think. There are movies that show the life of people who are not like others. It felt like one of those movies.
Jul 6, 2023
82
Cavalli’s directorial eye is as strong as her writer’s wit, a combination that makes for an unusually assured debut.
Jun 2, 2023
80
Writer-director Carolina Cavalli (with the considerable contribution of Benedetta Porcaroli in the title role) crafts a refreshingly unconventional and acidic deadpan comic portrait of an offbeat female friendship.
Jun 2, 2023
80
It is a film of style and surface, and these are cleverly created and maintained.
Jul 3, 2023
75
Carolina Cavalli’s film consecrates a ferocity as refreshing as it is infectious.
Jun 2, 2023
70
Too real for its whimsy and too whimsical to be realistic, Amanda will likely linger on those people who don’t leave their bedrooms much, more than on the reasons why they should – and that stunts its charm.
Aug 6, 2025
4
Não tinha ninguém ali pra internar essa menina irritante? Boderline com psicopatia, egocentrada, e ainda carente, cujo escape é feito com um namorado sem química alguma e uma amiga mais insuportável ainda. Tarja preta pra ambas.
Production Company:
- Elsinore Film
- Wildside
- Tenderstories
- Charades
- I Wonder Pictures
- Ministero della Cultura (MiC)
- Film Commission Torino-Piemonte
- Regione Piemonte
- La Città di Torino
Release Date:Jul 7, 2023
Duration:1 h 33 m
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Awards
David di Donatello Awards
• 3 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 2 Nominations
Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
