La Strada - Criterion Collection
starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere
directed by: Federico Fellini
directed by: Federico Fellini
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780021976
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021975
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 12033
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/18/2003 Run time: 108 minutes
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Considered by many to be Federico Fellini's most beautiful and powerful film, La Strada was the first film to reveal the range of Guilietta Masina, whose poignant performance as the childlike Gelsomina recalls Chaplin's Little Tramp. The bubbly, waiflike Gelsomina is a simpleton sold to the gruff, bullying circus strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) as a servant and assistant. Treated no better than an animal, Gelsomina nonetheless falls in love with the brute Zampanò. When they join a small circus they meet Il Matto (Richard Basehart), a clown who enchants Gelsomina and relentlessly taunts Zampanò, whose inability to control his hatred of Il Matto (literally, 'the Fool') leads to their expulsion from the circus and eventually to the film's fateful conclusion. Masina is heartbreaking as the wide-eyed innocent, whose generous spirit and love of life leads her to try to 'save' Quinn's unfeeling, brutal Zampanò. Though the film resonates with mythic and biblical dimensions, Fellini never loses sight of his characters, lovingly painted in all their frailties and failings. Fellini's lyrical style reaches back to the simple beauty of his neorealist films and looks ahead to the impressionistic fantasies of later films, but at this unique period in Fellini's career, they combine to create a poetic, tragic masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker
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- another amateur throws his hat in the ringI feel too small to do this but its by way of tribute. When Mr. Fellini made this film, Europe was ... Read More
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- Good early FelliniItalian filmmaker Federico Fellini's 1954 black and white film La Strada (The Road) is one of those ... Read More
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- "What a funny face! Are you a woman, really? Or an artichoke?"The face in question belongs to the enchanting Giulietta Masina. And the movie is LA STRADA (1954), ... Read More
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- Thin, slow and boring...Italian film with English Subtitles set in 1950's. A quirky young girl (Gelsomina) lives with her Mother ... Read More
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- The Road of LifeShe's simple and innocent. He's a cunning brute. He buys her from her own mother and turns her into his ... Read More
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