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Join us at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, for a screening of Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning “La Strada” (1954). Fellini directs his wife, the incandescent Giulietta Masina, as a woman sold by her mother into the employ of Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutal strongman in a traveling circus.
When Zampanò encounters an old rival in highwire artist the Fool (Richard Basehart), his fury is provoked to its breaking point. With “La Strada,” Fellini left behind the familiar signposts of Italian neorealism for a poetic fable of love and cruelty, evoking brilliant performances and winning the hearts of audiences and critics worldwide.
LA STRADA | 1954 | DIRECTOR: Federico Fellini | WITH: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Baseheart, Aldo Silvani | RUNNING TIME: 1H 48M | UNRATED no offensive material
“Federico Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954) tells a fable that is simple by his later standards, but contains many of the obsessive visual trademarks that he would return to again and again: the circus, and parades, and a figure suspended between earth and sky, and one woman who is a waif and another who is a carnal monster, and of course the seashore. Like a painter with a few favorite themes, Fellini would rework these images until the end of his life.
“The movie is the bridge between the postwar Italian neorealism which shaped Fellini, and the fanciful autobiographical extravaganzas which followed. It is fashionable to call it his best work – to see the rest of his career as a long slide into self-indulgence. I don’t see it that way. I think “La Strada” is part of a process of discovery that led to the masterpieces “La Dolce Vita” (1960), “8 1/2” (1963) and “Amarcord” (1974), and to the bewitching films he made in between, like “Juliet of the Spirits” (1965) and “Fellini’s Roma” (1972).” — Roger Ebert
Tickets are $6 (including service charge) and available at the link above. UM students use code STUDENT at checkout for free admission (must show Cane card at door).
