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Nights of Cabiria
Why this pick
Like La Strada, it rests on Giulietta Masina’s extraordinary blend of comic resilience and aching vulnerability, finding tenderness and spiritual longing amid a harsh, itinerant world.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1954 1h 55m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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La Strada
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Why this pick
Fellini again follows damaged outsiders on the margins of postwar Italy, with a roaming, episodic shape and an accumulating moral sadness rather than easy judgment.
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Umberto D.
Why this pick
Its plain, compassionate attention to an isolated person and his small routines carries the same neorealist humanism beneath La Strada’s melancholy and emotional force.
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Miracle in Milan
Why this pick
A poor community is rendered with the same fusion of postwar realism, circus-like eccentricity, and gentle fable that makes La Strada feel both earthly and mythical.
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Why this pick
Its childlike gaze, lyrical stillness, and sense of mystery within an unforgiving adult world echo Gelsomina’s innocent, quietly observant presence.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Gelsomina, a young woman, learns that her sister Rosa has died after going on the road with the Strongman (strength athlete) Zampanò. Now the man has returned a year later to ask her mother if Gelsomina will take Rosa's place. The mother accepts 10,000 Italian lira, and her daughter departs the same day.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Anthony Quinn
Zampanò
Giulietta Masina
Gelsomina
Richard Basehart
Il 'Matto'