Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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Wells assumes the audience’s ignorance of all things Italian, and as such any scene with Lindsay Duncan’s Katherine (an American with delusions of Anita Ekberg) engaging La Dolce Vita or Nights of Cabiria feels more condescending than helpful.
This new production combines the free form and make-believe splendor of those two films with the comic, bittersweet feeling for character and narrative we remember from some of his best films of the nineteen-fifties—"Variety Lights," "The White Sheik," "I Vitelloni" and "Nights of Cabiria."
The other masterpieces are “ La Strada ,” “ Nights of Cabiria ,” “ La Dolce Vita ,” “ 8 1/2 ” and “ Juliet of the Spirits .”
His "big" films are the ones that contain astounding arty imagery like 8 1/2, and Amarcord His earlier, "small" films are less intimidating and contain extraordinary images of people, like his wife, Giulietta Masina.
“Nights of Cabiria,” directed by Masina's husband, Federico Fellini, in 1957, won her the best actress award at Cannes, and the film won the Oscar for best foreign picture--his second in a row, after “ La Strada ” in 1956 (he also won for “ 8 1/2 ” in 1963 and “ Amarcord ” in 1974).