Film · 1954 · Neorealism
La Strada
Directed by Federico Fellini
1954
Italy
★ 7.9 editorial score
It took the very first competitive foreign language Academy Award, and Giulietta Masina is the reason: her face does more with one shrug than most performances manage in full.
“His story of an itinerant strong man and the simpleminded girl who is his foil and helpmeet is a modern picaresque parable. Like life itself, it is seemingly aimless, disjointed on occasion and full of truth and poetry. Like the principals, it wanders along a sad and sometimes comic path while accentuating man's loneliness and need for love.”
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1954Depicts 1950s
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