Review of Nights of Cabiria (1957) by Jutamanee J — 09 Jun 2006
A year after La Strada, Masina and Fellini hit another bullseye together. BTW, the picture quality on this DVD is amazing and crisp due to significant anounts of restoring done to the original negatives, and the process is featured on one of the extras by Criterion.
The story is made up of segments of time that the main character Cabiria spends with random people, each depicting fantastic worlds unto themselves. Unfortunately, Masina plays another tragic character who is treated not too kindly by life, but this time she has a streetwise edge( spiked by a hilariously explosive hot temper) along with the child-like innocence, and she fluctuates between the two at the drop of hat.
Her innocence, however, is what is meant to have an unlimited capacity to rejuvenate her in the face of countless unbelievably bad fortune. I was also very excited to see precisely what people meant when they compared Almadovar to Fellini.
It seems that Almadovar simply recreated whole episodes of this particular movie in some of his own works. Pretty cool.
This review of Nights of Cabiria (1957) was written by Jutamanee J on 09 Jun 2006.
Nights of Cabiria has generally received very positive reviews.
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