Review of Nights of Cabiria (1957) by Ld P — 03 Apr 2009
Nights of Cabiria is an incredibly powerful film. In my opinion it is Fellini's greatest work and is one of my all time favorite films. I saw this on the Big Screen in Dallas in the 1990s. a new transfer.
It was a magic film watching event. It is a melancholy film about a prostitute in a poor section of Rome Italy. She is rather naïve. The film follows Cabiria (Giulietta Masina Fellini?s wife) as she searches for love but encounters frequent heartbreak.
Mistreated and taken advantage of by almost everybody she encounters, Cabiria eventually meets a man who promises her a respectable future and falls head over heels in love with him. What follows is a series of humiliating episodes, in which the defiantly positive Cabiria is hurt, but never broken.
We follow her nights (and days) She is waiting for a miracle of love and security from her men. One by one they almost destroy her. The last one steals 40000 lira from her and tried to drown her. Neo realism gives this movie more of her living type themes and hopes dreams and desires and not a regular plot.
``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'' 1956.
This film ?Nights? is presented in a very sordid atmosphere of poverty desperation and prostitution. This was one of Fellinis last films with a linear structure. This is a very haunting film So very Powerful.
Highest recommendation 5 stars.
This review of Nights of Cabiria (1957) was written by Ld P on 03 Apr 2009.
Nights of Cabiria has generally received very positive reviews.
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