La Strada (The Road)

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La Strada (The Road)

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La Strada (The Road)

Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere

A carefree girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

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  • flixsterman
    August 2, 2009
    flixsterman
    I'm sure I'll incur the wrath of hard-core Fellini fans for saying this but, here goes, La Strada is my all-time favorite Federico Fellini film. (Yes, it's true - I like it even more than I like 8 1/2).

    Even though Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart are fantastic ...( read more)in this film, every scene is stolen by the incredible Giulietta Masina. She's naive, sexy, comic and tragic all at the same time. Her dialog is limited and yet she says so much with her expressions and gestures.

    Giulietta Masina- La Strada


    Masina's persona is a little Debbie Reynolds, a little Shirley MacLaine, and a touch of Charlie Chaplin. She's completely loveable and absolutely perfect for this role.
  • binky013
    March 31, 2009
    binky013
    No question, this is my favorite Fellini. Masina is always good, but she truly shines in this one. I've seen terms as unkind as "retarded" and as kind -- if you can call it kind -- as "simple" used to describe her character here. Flixsters, I'm here to argue that her character...( read more) is neither retarded nor simple, and is certainly not "addle-brained."

    Up to the point of the murder, Gelsomina is what I would call innocent. The word "sophisticated" used to mean something quite unlike what it means today. Nowadays, when we say someone is sophisticated, we are generally being complimentary. We mean that this person is quite worldly wise. Originally, however, if you were labeled sophisticated, the connotation was not flattering. If you were called sophisticated, it meant that you were viewed as, roughly, being "ruined by the world." Your innocence was far behind you. You were damaged goods, and irreparably so.

    So up to the point where Quinn murders Basehart, Gelsomina is innocent in the ways of the world, lacking in life experiences which disabuse us of our innocence. But from that point on she is ruined by the real world, sophisticated in the truest sense of the word, irreparably damaged by that experience. It is her psychic state post-murder that might -- might -- be termed "addled."

    Quinn is great in this one, and Basehart is astonishing. If you only ever see one Fellini, flixsters, this is the one I'd strongly recommend.
  • hypathio7
    November 20, 2008
    hypathio7
    The performances are wonderful from the three main characters, so the humor and tragedy is believable. Fellini is beginning to move away from his early influence by the Italian neo-realism movement. Parts still owe something to neo-realism, but other parts are a bit more fantas...( read more)tical. With these Italian pictures of the 40's and 50's audio tracks were not recorded simultaneously with the film, so whether the audio is changed to English dialog or is heard in the original Italian, it is all dubbed. I noticed more with this movie than some other Italian films I've seen from around this time that the dialog and trumpet and violin audio and video don't quite line up. I expect a little more from listening to the original audio on the collector's edition I viewed, but I suppose that was just the technology of the times and it contributes to the fantasy aspects of the story.
  • shortcartoonist
    August 20, 2008
    shortcartoonist
    Giulietta Masina is wonderful. She is unique, and brimming with an overt positive attitude that charms through warmth; and La Strada is the perfect tool to showcase her original talents. Fellini's road bound journey is filmmaking of a straight structure with simple people, but in...( read more)volving complex relationships and innovative filming techniques. Rota's score complements the tenderness, while Quinn's brutal arrogance balances the steadiness of Fellini's lensing eye.
  • dooritor1
    April 19, 2008
    dooritor1
    cute. but shallow.
  • byby5
    December 10, 2009
    byby5
    Good movie, excellent acting
  • jam233
    December 5, 2009
    jam233
    La Strada is a brilliant film. Giulietta Masina's performance is mesmerizing and haunting. She is amazing. She's happy, sad, simple and yet very complicated, almost Chaplinesque. She makes the film work, I just could not imagine anyone else in that role. It's a basic tale, but do...( read more)ne with such poignancy. It's unusual, revolutionary in it's time, unforgettable. Federico Fellini has done a magnificent job.
  • cinnamontree
    October 24, 2009
    cinnamontree
    My heart sank at the end. A beautiful and simple story with so many wonderful scenes, most favourites are with Basehart.
  • Ivan6655321
    October 11, 2009
    Ivan6655321
    Though Federico Fellini was well-known for his use of circus-like, surrealistic imagery, "La Strada" is the antithesis of it. It was told with simplicity, yet this simplicity paved way for its awesome emotional power. Anthony Quinn gave a great performance as Zampano, a strongma...( read more)n which have muscles that are seemingly as hard as his heart. While Giulietta Masina, shines as a naive woman who constantly searched for love inside Zampano's hardened heart. Gelsomina reminded me of Lars Von Trier's female protagonists, which until the very end, although suffered too much, still preserved their naivety. "La Strada" is an unconscious love story, and while Fellini films like "8 1/2" were built from dreams and fantasies, "La Strada" is built of human emotions.
  • ahhh1989
    September 20, 2009
    ahhh1989
    Another of my favorite Fellini films. Definitely one of his most offbeat.
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