Anthony Quinn, Gulietta Masina
Dir. Federico Fellini
Year. 1954
Country: Italy
Run-time: 108 mins
Rating: PG
Doors: 5.30 pm Film: 6 pm
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La Strada tells the story of Gelsomina (Gulietta Masina), an innocent young girl with an absent mind but a heart of gold. Gelsomina’s mother is forced to sell her to a traveling circus performer named Zampano (Anthony Quinn) during a season of famine and poverty. As Gelsomina accompanies Zampano on his expeditions across the Italian countryside, she learns about the cruelties and hardships of life and love. Guilietta Masina and Anthony Quinn give an artlessly, unforgettable performance.
La Strada won more than fifty international awards, including an Oscar in 1957 for Best Foreign Language Film, the first recipient in that category and Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival.
“Fellini’s Oscar-winning weepie is moving not only for the cruel fate of its lead characters at the hand of a brutish man, but for how we can see ourselves in them.”
“One of the greatest of all films, this haunting, heartfelt fable feels like a balm during these troubled times, its essential, insistent humanity arriving as a reminder right when we need it most.”
