La Strada (Criterion, Art House Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Quinn & Giulietta Masina | |
Performer: | Richard Basehart & Aldo Silvani | |
Directed by | Federico Fellini |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Fellini's lyrical road movie from 1954....Whimsy and tragedy collide...
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Anthony Quinn plays with impressive savagery and assurance as Zampano; and it is a mark of his quality that, for all the character's unmitigated brutality, he makes it seem touchingly helpless.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
...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
A classic story of a man's solitude, a parable about his inability to recognize himself in others. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
La Strada is the first film that can be called entirely 'Felliniesque.'
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Chicago Sun-Times
...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
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.
Product Description:
Federico Fellini had been making films for a few years, but with the 1954 release of La strada, the Italian director set himself on his way to becoming one of international cinema's household names. A delicate, immensely moving tale of love and loss between strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn) and his silent long-suffering charge, Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), La strada introduced many viewers to two of the filmmaker's lasting passion--the circus and Masina, his wife.
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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