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Nights of Cabiria

Le notti di Cabiria

1957

Federico Fellini

Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari, Aldo Silvani ...

8.2

8,858

Drama Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We follow her nights (and days): a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire from her and nearly drowns her, a movie star on the Via Veneto takes her home with him, at a local shrine she seeks the Madonna's intercession, then she meets an accountant who's seen her, hypnotized on a vaudeville ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The gift of Cabiria's essence, freed from the determinism of stories, is to return us to our own"	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"The most perfectly beautiful and touching of Fellini's movies"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A deep, wrenching and eloquent filmgoing experience"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Fellini was a poet of words and music (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"This melancholy tale of a prostitute working the outskirts of Rome is notable for its straightforward depiction of destitution."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Wistful and willful, delighted and heartbroken, there has never been a face quite like Giulietta Masina's."	POS
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"Masina's performance is of the sort that makes audiences love actors."	POS

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