Le Notti di Cabiria (AKA Nights of Cabiria) - Federico Fellini (

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Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (1957)



A year after his international breakthrough film La Strada, Federico Fellini and his leading lady/wife Giulietta Masina collaborated on another masterpiece, a magical mix of neorealism and romantic optimism set on the streets of Rome. Masina's moon-faced and bright-eyed Cabiria is a passionate streetwalker with a heart as big as Italy and the emotional spontaneity of a child, a woman with a hearty passion for life whose constant weakness is falling in love with mercenary creeps. For a couple of hours we share the dreams and disillusionments of Cabiria as she rattles around Rome before once again losing her heart. The bittersweet heartbreak is tempered with a soaring celebration of the human spirit: no other Fellini film offers such honest hope in the face of such bitter devastation. Fellini left the poor and the working class to revel in the decadence of Rome's high society for his next film, La Dolce Vita, a film that could have sprung from Cabiria's hilarious chance interlude with a matinee idol (played by Amedeo Nazzari). Rambling and leisurely paced, Nights of Cabiria is a sweet film of warmth and simple grace. It became the basis of Neil Simon's American musical Sweet Charity, with Shirley Maclaine taking Masina's role in Bob Fosse's film version.



IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783/




Original Title...: Le Notti di Cabiria

Director.........: Federico Fellini

Year.............: 1957

Country..........: Italy

Running Time.....: 118 minutes

Audio............: Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles........: English + Spanish (custom)

Video Format.....: 1.33.1

DVD Source.......: DVD9

DVD Format.......: NTSC

DVD Distributor..: The Criterion Collection

Program..........: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4



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