La Strada (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 2, 2021
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina & Richard Basehart | |
Performer: | Aldo Silvani | |
Directed by | Federico Fellini | |
Edited by | Leo Catozzo | |
Screenplay by | Federico Fellini & Tullio Pinelli | |
Composition by | Nino Rota | |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis & Carlo Ponti | |
Director of Photography: | Otello Martelli |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
98%
TOMATOMETER
...The entire cast is marvelous...
Entertainment Weekly
Fellini's lyrical road movie from 1954....Whimsy and tragedy collide...
Uncut
...LA STRADA brought a kind of poetry to the screen that dazzled audiences at the time and still works today...
Los Angeles Times
If you see just one film from director Federico Fellini's early period before 1963's 8 1/2, it ought to be this tearjerker.
USA Today
...Like a painter with a few favorite themes, Fellini would rework these images until the end of his life....LA STRADA is the first film that can be called entirely 'Felliniesque'...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a performer in a traveling carnival outside of Rome, purchases the young, poor Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) to be his wife and assistant. Although she shows genuine enthusiasm as an assistant, putting on a fabulous clown act akin to Charlie Chaplin, nobody seems to appreciate her; she quietly endures a life of emotional coldness and cruelty. When she meets "The Fool," Ilmatto (Richard Basehart), a quicksilver trapeze artist who befriends her and offers her warmth, kindness, and an uplifting vision of the world, Gelsomina convinces herself that she and Zampano are in love. She is plunged into despair, however, after Zampano interferes in a jealous rage, precipitating a tragedy that will haunt him forever. Federico Fellini establishes a style and certain key themes in this film that he repeats as trademarks in subsequent films: the beach as a symbol of purity and release; haunting, soft female singing as a symbol of memory; examinations of Catholics and their religion as a cult behavior; and, above all, a chaotic, circus-oriented cyclical pattern that guides his films. The Oscar-winning LA STRADA is the perfect place from which to begin an exploration of Fellini's expertly crafted movies.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Classic
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Romance
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Love Story
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On-The-Road
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Recommended
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Disturbing
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Surreal
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Theatrical Release
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Love
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Essential Cinema
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