Federico Fellini's La Strada suffers from a bit too much schmaltz. Nonetheless, it's a very good film and gives free range to Giulieta Masina's great comic talents:
Masina would later kick ass in Nights Of Cabiria, but this is where her talents first were revealed.
Fellini made better films, but perhaps none with as many memorable seriocomic moments.
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8/7/09
8/6/09
Nights Of Cabiria
Giulieta Masina is fabulous in her husband's film. Federico Fellini went better than he did in La Strada, and the film succeeds without being sentimental in the extreme.
Here is the film's start:
Here is the famed Good Samaritan section that was long excised in American prints. It's only available untranslated, even on the Criterion Collection DVD:
Here is the film's start:
Here is the famed Good Samaritan section that was long excised in American prints. It's only available untranslated, even on the Criterion Collection DVD:
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