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'''''Allegro non troppo''''' is a 1976 Italian [[Animation|animated]] film directed by [[Bruno Bozzetto]]. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a [[parody]] of [[Walt Disney]]'s 1940 feature film |
'''''Allegro non troppo''''' is a 1976 Italian [[Animation|animated]] film directed by [[Bruno Bozzetto]]. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a [[parody]] of [[Walt Disney]]'s 1940 feature film ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'', two of its segments being derived from the earlier film.<ref name=deseret>{{cite news |last=Hicks|first=Chris| title=Allegro Non Troppo | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700000059/Allegro-Non-Troppo.html |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] | date=1991-03-12 | url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031122955/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700000059/Allegro-Non-Troppo.html |archive-date=31 October 2010}}</ref> The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/bruno-bozzetto-to-receive-asifa-prize/|title=Bruno Bozzetto to Receive ASIFA Prize|website=www.animationmagazine.net|date=8 April 2013 }}</ref> |
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At the beginning, in between the animation, and at the end, there are black and white live-action sequences, displaying the fictional animator, orchestra, conductor and filmmaker, with many humorous scenes about the fictional production of the film.<ref name=deseret/> Some of these sections mix animation and live action.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=2009 |publisher=Checkmark Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8160-6600-1 |edition=3rd |page=160}}</ref> |
At the beginning, in between the animation, and at the end, there are black and white live-action sequences, displaying the fictional animator, orchestra, conductor and filmmaker, with many humorous scenes about the fictional production of the film.<ref name=deseret/> Some of these sections mix animation and live action.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=2009 |publisher=Checkmark Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8160-6600-1 |edition=3rd |page=160}}</ref> |
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The film was released in two versions. The first includes live action sequences in between the classical pieces; the second version of the film omits these, replacing them with animated [[Plasticine]] letters spelling out the title of the next piece of music. |
The film was released in two versions. The first includes live action sequences in between the classical pieces; the second version of the film omits these, replacing them with animated [[Plasticine]] letters spelling out the title of the next piece of music. |
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While ''Allegro non troppo'' spoofs its source, [[The Walt Disney Company]] has been positively receptive towards the film. Disney veteran [[Ward Kimball]] would recommend the ''[[Boléro]]'' segment to his animation students, and the [[Walt Disney Family Museum]] held an exhibit on Bruno Bozzetto, featuring his work on the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/fantasia-spoof-allegro-non-troppo-explained/|title=An Ode to ''Allegro Non Troppo'', the ''Fantasia'' Spoof You Never Knew Existed|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|last=Fischer|first=William|date=September 15, 2021|access-date=September 15, 2021}}</ref> |
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==Title== |
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In music, an instruction of "[[Allegro Ma non Troppo|allegro ma non troppo]]" means to play "fast, but not overly so". Without the "ma", the Italian sentence should be rewritten as "non troppo allegro", which literally means "not so happy", and in musical terms it could be interpreted as "not too fast". While "allegro ma non troppo" bears a positive connotation (as in "happy, just not so much"), "non troppo allegro" sounds more negative (as in "not really that happy"). |
In music, an instruction of "[[Allegro Ma non Troppo|allegro ma non troppo]]" means to play "fast, but not overly so". Without the "ma", the Italian sentence should be rewritten as "non troppo allegro", which literally means "not so happy", and in musical terms it could be interpreted as "not too fast". While "allegro ma non troppo" bears a positive connotation (as in "happy, just not so much"), "non troppo allegro" sounds more negative (as in "not really that happy"). |
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*[[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune]]'': an elderly [[satyr]] repeatedly attempts to cosmetically recapture his youth and virility, but all in vain.<ref name=deseret/> |
*[[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune]]'': an elderly [[satyr]] repeatedly attempts to cosmetically recapture his youth and virility, but all in vain.<ref name=deseret /> With each failure, the satyr gets smaller and smaller, until he roams across a vast countryside which turns out to be a woman's body. |
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*[[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Slavonic Dances|Slavonic Dance No. 7, Op. 46]], begins in a large community of cliff-side [[Cave dweller|cave-dwellers]]. A solitary [[caveman]], wanting to better himself, goes out onto the plain and builds himself a new home. From this point on, the rest of the community copies everything that he does.<ref name=deseret/> Annoyed that everyone is able to keep up with his advances so quickly, his attempts to break away from them leads to his planning a bizarre act of mass vengeance with unintended and humorous consequences. |
*[[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Slavonic Dances|Slavonic Dance No. 7, Op. 46]], begins in a large community of cliff-side [[Cave dweller|cave-dwellers]]. A solitary [[caveman]], wanting to better himself, goes out onto the plain and builds himself a new home. From this point on, the rest of the community copies everything that he does.<ref name=deseret/> Annoyed that everyone is able to keep up with his advances so quickly, his attempts to break away from them leads to his planning a bizarre act of mass vengeance with unintended and humorous consequences. |
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*[[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[Boléro]]'': liquid at the bottom of a soda bottle left behind by space travelers attains life, and progresses through fanciful representations of the stages of [[evolution]] and history until skyscrapers erupt from the ground and destroy all that has come before. This segment parallels ''The Rite of Spring'' segment from ''Fantasia'', complete with a solar eclipse. Its opening moment was used as the image for the film poster. |
*[[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[Boléro]]'': liquid at the bottom of a soda bottle left behind by space travelers attains life, and progresses through fanciful representations of the stages of [[evolution]] and history until skyscrapers erupt from the ground and destroy all that has come before. This segment parallels ''The Rite of Spring'' segment from ''Fantasia'', complete with a solar eclipse. Its opening moment was used as the image for the film poster. |
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*[[Jean Sibelius]]'s ''[[Valse triste (Sibelius)|Valse triste]]'': a solitary cat wanders in the ruins of a large house. The cat remembers the life that used to fill the house when it was occupied.<ref name=deseret/> Eventually all of these images fade away, as does the cat, just before the ruins are demolished. |
*[[Jean Sibelius]]'s ''[[Valse triste (Sibelius)|Valse triste]]'': a solitary cat wanders in the ruins of a large house. The cat remembers the life that used to fill the house when it was occupied.<ref name=deseret/> Eventually all of these images fade away, as does the cat, just before the ruins are demolished. |
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*[[Antonio Vivaldi]]'s [[Concerto in C major, RV 559]]: a female bee prepares to dine on a flower in elaborate style, complete with utensils and a portable TV. She is continually interrupted by two lovers having a romantic interlude on the nearby grass.<ref name=deseret/> In the end, after having her meal continually interrupted and each time being forced to gather up her things and scramble to safety, she stings the male on his rump. |
*[[Antonio Vivaldi]]'s [[Concerto in C major, RV 559]]: a female bee prepares to dine on a flower in elaborate style, complete with utensils and a portable TV. She is continually interrupted by two lovers having a romantic interlude on the nearby grass.<ref name=deseret/> In the end, after having her meal continually interrupted and each time being forced to gather up her things and scramble to safety, she stings the male on his rump. |
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*[[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Firebird]]'' (specifically ''The Princesses' Khorovod'' and ''The Infernal Dance of King Katschey'') begins with a lump of clay molded by a monotheistic symbol of the omniscient pyramid, first making a few unsuccessful creatures with overly awkward limbs, then finally the [[Adam and Eve]] as portrayed in [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]]. Adam and Eve then transform into cel animation and, as in Genesis, the [[ |
*[[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Firebird]]'' (specifically ''The Princesses' Khorovod'' and ''The Infernal Dance of King Katschey'') begins with a lump of clay molded by a monotheistic symbol of the omniscient pyramid, first making a few unsuccessful creatures with overly awkward limbs, then finally the [[Adam and Eve]] as portrayed in [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]]. Adam and Eve then transform into cel animation and, as in Genesis, the [[Serpents in the Bible#Eden|Serpent of Eden]] comes up to them, offering the fruits of knowledge in the form of an [[Tree of the knowledge of good and evil|apple]]. After they refuse it, the serpent swallows the apple himself. Falling asleep, he is immediately plunged into a nightmare in a hellish environment where he is first tormented by fiery [[demon]]s and then plagued by all the things that are supposed to corrupt humankind (i.e. sex, alcohol, money, material objects, drugs, violence, etc.);<ref name=deseret/> he also grows arms and legs and is magicked into a suit and [[fedora]]. When the music ends after he wakes up, he is still wearing the suit and hat, but after telling Adam and Eve his dream in a fast-motion and incomprehensible manner, he sheds the suit (losing his arms and legs but keeping the hat) and spits up the still-whole apple. |
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*In an [[epilogue]] sequence, the film's host asks an animated [[Igor (fictional character)|Igor]]-type monster (identified as "Franceschini") to retrieve a finale for the |
*In an [[epilogue]] sequence, the film's host asks an animated [[Igor (fictional character)|Igor]]-type monster (identified as "Franceschini") to retrieve a finale for the film from a basement storeroom. Franceschini rejects several of these, but delightedly approves of one which depicts a ridiculously escalating series of accidents (featuring an assortment of short orchestral clips instead of a single piece (Among them are [[Johannes Brahms]]' [[Hungarian Dances (Brahms)|Hungarian Dance No. 5]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s [[Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565|Toccata and Fugue in D minor]], Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 7 (from before) and [[Franz Liszt]]'s [[Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2]]), ending with the planet [[Earth]] exploding in a [[nuclear war]]. The action returns to the host and the conductor discussing their next project. After a bit of brainstorming the host reveals his latest original and brilliant idea: ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' with the title ''[[Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|Sleeping Beauty]]''. This scene turns out to be another finale being watched by Franceschini. After it ends, the Serpent of Eden from the ''Firebird Suite'' pops out and bites Franceschini on the nose, and the words "HAPPY END" drop on them, the serpent peering out of the "D".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://366weirdmovies.com/152-allegro-non-troppo-1976/|title=152. ''Allegro non troppo'' (1976)|date=29 August 2013|website=366weirdmovies.com}}</ref> |
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All of the recordings used in the film were courtesy of [[Deutsche Grammophon]].<ref>{{Discogs release|15645067|Allegro non troppo: Original soundtrack from Bruno Bozzetto's film}}</ref> |
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The uncut film also contains comic live action sequences, in black and white blended with occasional color animations, that parody the [[Deems Taylor]] introductions from ''Fantasia''. |
The uncut film also contains comic live action sequences, in black and white blended with occasional color animations, that parody the [[Deems Taylor]] introductions from ''Fantasia''. "The Presenter" ([[Maurizio Micheli]]) starts off with an exaggerated version of Taylor's opening introduction in ''Fantasia'' ( "A new and original film" .. "you will see the music and hear the drawings" .. "a fantasia") only to be interrupted by a phone call from California informing him that the film had already been done. He angrily objects, dismissing the caller as an ill-mannered liar, explaining to the audience that the caller claims that someone ("Prisney", "Grisney", "some American") had done this years before, then telling the caller to at least watch the film, and hangs up. Next the Presenter introduces "The Orchestra Master" (Néstor Garay) and an orchestra made up of little old ladies as the Orchestra Master roughly rounds them up from a cattle pen into a large trailer for transport to the theater. As the trailer heads out to the theater the Presenter exults, "Pisney has already done this?". Lastly before the first animated music segment (''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune''), the Presenter introduces "The Animator" ([[Maurizio Nichetti]]).<ref name=deseret/> as the Orchestra Master retrieves him from a dungeon-like cell in which the Animator ("a free artist") has been chained to a wall (as the Presenter puts it: "a binding contract based on trust and mutual respect"). A pretty young cleaning woman (Marialuisa Giovannini) also appears in each segment, although she is barely acknowledged by any of the characters except the Animator (who seems to take an increasing fancy to her as the film progresses). Each sequence portrays action (like the tossing of a Coca-Cola bottle) that leads directly into the next animated portion of the film and occasionally includes references to a previous segment (such as a [[chamber pot]] appearing on the Orchestra Master's head or the female bee and the serpent from their respective segments appearing briefly in the subsequent live-action sequences). After the "Bolero" segment, a gorilla (inspired by the animated character in the ''[[Boléro]]'') also appears a few times, first chasing then dancing with The Animator, then later beating up the Orchestra Master who has attacked the Animator. After the ''Firebird'' sequence, the Animator transforms the cleaning woman into a cartoon fairy tale princess and himself into a prince (apparently resembling the titular character and her Prince from Walt Disney's 1937 film, ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'') before both float away, thus leaving the Presenter and Orchestra Master without a finale. This leads into the epilogue sequence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/disney-museum-pays-tribute-bozzetto/|title=Disney Museum Pays Tribute to Bozzetto|website=www.animationmagazine.net|date=2 December 2013 }}</ref> |
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''Allegro non troppo'' holds a 89% "Fresh" rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 19 reviews.<ref name=RT /> Film journalist [[Phil Hall (US writer)|Phil Hall]] wrote that the ''Valse triste'' sequence was "genuinely heartbreaking" and "one of the most beautiful [sequences] in animation history."<ref>{{Cite AV media notes|title=Allegro non troppo|last=Hall|first=Phil|date=2003|publisher=Homevision}}</ref> |
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''Allegro non troppo'' was given a Critics' Referendum Prize at the [[Yellow Kid Awards]] in [[Lucca Comics & Games|Lucca]] in 1976.<ref name=S1976>{{cite web|language=it |title=12° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS E DEL FILM DI ANIMAZIONE |url=http://www.immaginecentrostudi.org/saloni/salone12.asp |website=immaginecentrostrudi.org}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 2 December 2024
Allegro non troppo | |
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Directed by | Bruno Bozzetto |
Written by | Bruno Bozzetto Guido Manuli Maurizio Nichetti[1] |
Produced by | Bruno Bozzetto [2] |
Starring | Maurizio Micheli Maurizio Nichetti Néstor Garay Maurialuisa Giovannini |
Cinematography | Mario Masini |
Music by | Recordings from Deutsche Grammophon |
Production companies | Bruno Bozzetto Film Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo (uncredited) |
Distributed by | Roxy International (1977) (Italy) Specialty Films (1977) (USA) (subtitled) |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Allegro non troppo is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 feature film Fantasia, two of its segments being derived from the earlier film.[3] The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy.[4]
At the beginning, in between the animation, and at the end, there are black and white live-action sequences, displaying the fictional animator, orchestra, conductor and filmmaker, with many humorous scenes about the fictional production of the film.[3] Some of these sections mix animation and live action.[5]
The film was released in two versions. The first includes live action sequences in between the classical pieces; the second version of the film omits these, replacing them with animated Plasticine letters spelling out the title of the next piece of music.
While Allegro non troppo spoofs its source, The Walt Disney Company has been positively receptive towards the film. Disney veteran Ward Kimball would recommend the Boléro segment to his animation students, and the Walt Disney Family Museum held an exhibit on Bruno Bozzetto, featuring his work on the film.[6]
Title
[edit]In music, an instruction of "allegro ma non troppo" means to play "fast, but not overly so". Without the "ma", the Italian sentence should be rewritten as "non troppo allegro", which literally means "not so happy", and in musical terms it could be interpreted as "not too fast". While "allegro ma non troppo" bears a positive connotation (as in "happy, just not so much"), "non troppo allegro" sounds more negative (as in "not really that happy").
Program
[edit]- Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: an elderly satyr repeatedly attempts to cosmetically recapture his youth and virility, but all in vain.[3] With each failure, the satyr gets smaller and smaller, until he roams across a vast countryside which turns out to be a woman's body.
- Antonín Dvořák's Slavonic Dance No. 7, Op. 46, begins in a large community of cliff-side cave-dwellers. A solitary caveman, wanting to better himself, goes out onto the plain and builds himself a new home. From this point on, the rest of the community copies everything that he does.[3] Annoyed that everyone is able to keep up with his advances so quickly, his attempts to break away from them leads to his planning a bizarre act of mass vengeance with unintended and humorous consequences.
- Maurice Ravel's Boléro: liquid at the bottom of a soda bottle left behind by space travelers attains life, and progresses through fanciful representations of the stages of evolution and history until skyscrapers erupt from the ground and destroy all that has come before. This segment parallels The Rite of Spring segment from Fantasia, complete with a solar eclipse. Its opening moment was used as the image for the film poster.
- Jean Sibelius's Valse triste: a solitary cat wanders in the ruins of a large house. The cat remembers the life that used to fill the house when it was occupied.[3] Eventually all of these images fade away, as does the cat, just before the ruins are demolished.
- Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in C major, RV 559: a female bee prepares to dine on a flower in elaborate style, complete with utensils and a portable TV. She is continually interrupted by two lovers having a romantic interlude on the nearby grass.[3] In the end, after having her meal continually interrupted and each time being forced to gather up her things and scramble to safety, she stings the male on his rump.
- Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird (specifically The Princesses' Khorovod and The Infernal Dance of King Katschey) begins with a lump of clay molded by a monotheistic symbol of the omniscient pyramid, first making a few unsuccessful creatures with overly awkward limbs, then finally the Adam and Eve as portrayed in Genesis. Adam and Eve then transform into cel animation and, as in Genesis, the Serpent of Eden comes up to them, offering the fruits of knowledge in the form of an apple. After they refuse it, the serpent swallows the apple himself. Falling asleep, he is immediately plunged into a nightmare in a hellish environment where he is first tormented by fiery demons and then plagued by all the things that are supposed to corrupt humankind (i.e. sex, alcohol, money, material objects, drugs, violence, etc.);[3] he also grows arms and legs and is magicked into a suit and fedora. When the music ends after he wakes up, he is still wearing the suit and hat, but after telling Adam and Eve his dream in a fast-motion and incomprehensible manner, he sheds the suit (losing his arms and legs but keeping the hat) and spits up the still-whole apple.
- In an epilogue sequence, the film's host asks an animated Igor-type monster (identified as "Franceschini") to retrieve a finale for the film from a basement storeroom. Franceschini rejects several of these, but delightedly approves of one which depicts a ridiculously escalating series of accidents (featuring an assortment of short orchestral clips instead of a single piece (Among them are Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5, Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 7 (from before) and Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2), ending with the planet Earth exploding in a nuclear war. The action returns to the host and the conductor discussing their next project. After a bit of brainstorming the host reveals his latest original and brilliant idea: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the title Sleeping Beauty. This scene turns out to be another finale being watched by Franceschini. After it ends, the Serpent of Eden from the Firebird Suite pops out and bites Franceschini on the nose, and the words "HAPPY END" drop on them, the serpent peering out of the "D".[7]
All of the recordings used in the film were courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.[8]
Live action sequences
[edit]The uncut film also contains comic live action sequences, in black and white blended with occasional color animations, that parody the Deems Taylor introductions from Fantasia. "The Presenter" (Maurizio Micheli) starts off with an exaggerated version of Taylor's opening introduction in Fantasia ( "A new and original film" .. "you will see the music and hear the drawings" .. "a fantasia") only to be interrupted by a phone call from California informing him that the film had already been done. He angrily objects, dismissing the caller as an ill-mannered liar, explaining to the audience that the caller claims that someone ("Prisney", "Grisney", "some American") had done this years before, then telling the caller to at least watch the film, and hangs up. Next the Presenter introduces "The Orchestra Master" (Néstor Garay) and an orchestra made up of little old ladies as the Orchestra Master roughly rounds them up from a cattle pen into a large trailer for transport to the theater. As the trailer heads out to the theater the Presenter exults, "Pisney has already done this?". Lastly before the first animated music segment (Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune), the Presenter introduces "The Animator" (Maurizio Nichetti).[3] as the Orchestra Master retrieves him from a dungeon-like cell in which the Animator ("a free artist") has been chained to a wall (as the Presenter puts it: "a binding contract based on trust and mutual respect"). A pretty young cleaning woman (Marialuisa Giovannini) also appears in each segment, although she is barely acknowledged by any of the characters except the Animator (who seems to take an increasing fancy to her as the film progresses). Each sequence portrays action (like the tossing of a Coca-Cola bottle) that leads directly into the next animated portion of the film and occasionally includes references to a previous segment (such as a chamber pot appearing on the Orchestra Master's head or the female bee and the serpent from their respective segments appearing briefly in the subsequent live-action sequences). After the "Bolero" segment, a gorilla (inspired by the animated character in the Boléro) also appears a few times, first chasing then dancing with The Animator, then later beating up the Orchestra Master who has attacked the Animator. After the Firebird sequence, the Animator transforms the cleaning woman into a cartoon fairy tale princess and himself into a prince (apparently resembling the titular character and her Prince from Walt Disney's 1937 film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) before both float away, thus leaving the Presenter and Orchestra Master without a finale. This leads into the epilogue sequence.[9]
Cast
[edit]Character | Original actor[10] | English voice |
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The Presenter | Maurizio Micheli | Unknown |
The Animator | Maurizio Nichetti | |
The Orchestra Master | Néstor Garay | |
The Cleaning Girl | Maurialuisa Giovannini | |
Man in Gorilla costume | Osvaldo Salvi |
Reception
[edit]Allegro non troppo holds a 89% "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews.[10] Film journalist Phil Hall wrote that the Valse triste sequence was "genuinely heartbreaking" and "one of the most beautiful [sequences] in animation history."[11]
Allegro non troppo was given a Critics' Referendum Prize at the Yellow Kid Awards in Lucca in 1976.[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bozzetto, Bruno; Nichetti, Maurizio; Home Vision (Firm) (8 June 1994). Allegro non troppo. Public Media Home Vision. OCLC 32532412.
- ^ "Allegro non troppo" – via mubi.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Hicks, Chris (1991-03-12). "Allegro Non Troppo". Deseret News. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010.
- ^ "Bruno Bozzetto to Receive ASIFA Prize". www.animationmagazine.net. 8 April 2013.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.
- ^ Fischer, William (September 15, 2021). "An Ode to Allegro Non Troppo, the Fantasia Spoof You Never Knew Existed". Collider. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
- ^ "152. Allegro non troppo (1976)". 366weirdmovies.com. 29 August 2013.
- ^ Allegro non troppo: Original soundtrack from Bruno Bozzetto's film at Discogs
- ^ "Disney Museum Pays Tribute to Bozzetto". www.animationmagazine.net. 2 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Allegro non Troppo". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ Hall, Phil (2003). Allegro non troppo (Media notes). Homevision.
- ^ "12° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS E DEL FILM DI ANIMAZIONE". immaginecentrostrudi.org (in Italian)..
External links
[edit]- Allegro non troppo at IMDb
- ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Allegro non troppo at AllMovie
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- 1976 films
- 1976 animated films
- 1970s musical fantasy films
- 1970s parody films
- 1970s monster movies
- Films directed by Bruno Bozzetto
- Films set in abandoned houses
- Italian haunted house films
- Italian animated feature films
- 1970s Italian-language films
- Italian musical fantasy films
- Animated anthology films
- Italian parody films
- Italian satirical films
- Films about Adam and Eve
- Disney parodies
- Films about classical music and musicians
- Films with live action and animation
- Animated films based on classical mythology
- 1970s Italian films
- Films partially in color
- Fantasia (franchise)
- Satyrs
- Films about old age
- Animated films about cavemen
- Films about evolution
- Animated films about cats
- Animated films about bees
- Films about nightmares
- Animated films about demons
- Films about nuclear war and weapons
- Animated films about princesses
- Animated films about princes
- 1976 musical films