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La Strada - Criterion Collection

La Strada - Criterion Collection

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A beautiful movie...
Review: After watching Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) for my Italian class, I watched La Strada. I am so moved by Giulietta Masina's childlike, innocent Gelsomina...I've never watched Fellini movies before this year, but now I can't think of a better movie than La Strada. This movie is a bit melancholy but incredibly beautiful.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Road to Bliss
Review: La Strada. Don't need many words to express the feelings this movie gave me. I'm a man and I cried. Guilietta Masina can act with her facial expressions without uttering a word. Quinn? Amazing! Glorious Black & White... The tale of Beauty and the Beast...in all of us.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unforgetable with a haunting music score
Review: As kids, my sisters and I would sit and watch movies. LaStrada is one that we would watch over and over as it was shown on the old movie channels. I have cried each and everytime I see this movie, as recent as this year. The music is haunting. I have told people for years about this movie and have passed it on to my children. I am thrilled that this movie is beginning to show up on the movie channels again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best film ever
Review: La Strada is in my opinion the best film ever made outside the US. Gulietta Massina's performance is unparalleled by any actress before or since. Anthony Quinn will astound with a deep performance. His ability to go from a brutish bully to a heartbroken man is incredible. Fellini was a rare genius. La Strada shows that he had has finger on the pulse of human emotions. Of course he is better known for his more flamboyant films, films that helped create the description "Felliniesque", but this early work shows a stripped down filmaker who had an incredible ability to tell a deeply personal story about human frailty. Simply the best movie I have seen.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats!
Review: That is Fellini's real life wife? Judging by the chicks his alter-ego pulls in 8 1/2 I would have thought him to be into better looking women. Her Chaplin routine is top.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is my all-time favorite movie; simply, a masterpiece.
Review: I first saw La Strada in a moviehouse in the mid 1950's when I was around 10. It's deeply moving story and haunting melody left a lifelong impression. Quinn, Masina, and Basehart are superb in their roles and Fellini's direction is brilliant. Just an absolutely incredible movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Still crazy romantic after all these years, and loving it!
Review: I saw this movie when I was in college almost twenty years ago. I have seen it only once, but I remember what it meant to me. After simpathizing with Ms. Massini's character, with the Fool and hating Zampano since the beginig of the movie, I found myself amazed to feel sorry for him at the very end when he receives what he deserves, loneliness and emptyness.

I cried not only for him, but for all of us, that sooner or later will face that moment, with relief or with remorse.

In a way maybe her love did save and redempt him; just a litlle too late.

When I got into DVD world, I sweared I'll never buy a VHS; but this movie it's an exception to the rule.

Give yourself the opportunity to explore the power of this movie, I'm puertorican (Spanish speaking), Italian it's similar but not quite the same. See it on it's original language, with subtitles. I believe it's an added value to listen to it the way it was meant.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: There is actually a reason why a classic becomes a classic.
Review: This was not what I was prepared for. How can black and white be so colourful and alive. I never saw a Fellini film before, and to be quite honest I didn't want to see this one either. But one of my friends, who obviously is much smarter than me (although that is hard to admit!), made me go.

To all of you out there who fears these old black and white classics: see this film! You will descover that colour does not only depend on the colour of the celluloid.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The greatest Fellini film ever made
Review: The least complicated of Fellini's films, La Strada is hauntingly beautiful. Film buffs know that. But anyone can learn from this tale. It's more accessable than most Fellini films, and a morality play that you'll never forget.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: La Strada is the greatest masterpiece ever made!
Review: This film is a poetic drama about the story of Gelsomina a simple-mindhead girl bought by Zampano a strong travelling artist.One day she met Il Matto(the Fool)who is good for her.But Zampano killed him and the poor Gelsomina lose her reason.Giulietta Masina who played Gelsomina(my favorite character)is so wonderful,her performance is incredible and she so expressive.Anthony Quinn(Zampano) and Richard Baseheart(Il Matto)are very good too.The music of this film is so beautiful,the story,the actors all of this film is perfect.All people must watch this masterpiece.I will never forget Giulietta Masina the unforgettable sensitive Gelsomina.


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