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Nights of Cabiria (Italian: Le notti di Cabiria) is a 1957 Italian film by Federico Fellini. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, plays Cabiria Ceccarelli, a feisty but naive prostitute in Ostia, then a seedy section of Rome. The name Cabiria is borrowed...


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The New York Observer
Understated Family Drama Lit Up by The Holy Girl's Smile
5/22/2005: 2,469 words, approx. 8 pages
Lucrecia Martel's La Niña Santa ("The Holy Girl"), from her own screenplay, slithers along as a highly controlled sex comedy that is unusually civilized in comparison to the more prevalent crudities in movies these days. With her first two films (the first was 2001's La...
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The New York Observer
La Dolce Vita? Nah!\'d1 Amarcord Is Even More Fun
10/22/2006: 1,061 words, approx. 4 pages
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right. “We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the blather about La Strada being a great film for its use of...
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The New York Observer
La Dolce Vita? Nah!- Amarcord Is Even More Fun
10/22/2006: 1,061 words, approx. 4 pages
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right. “We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the blather about La Strada being a great film for its use...
 


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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
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By casting the diminutive, clown-visaged, essentially sexless Giulietta Masina as his prostitute [in Le Notti di Cabiria], Fellini has automatically divorced himself from the currently fashionable exploitation of lurid themes. His treatment is neither sensual nor sentimental. By depicting Cabiria's spirited recovery from her ludicrous betrayal, Fellini indicates his concern with the indestructibility of his heroine, and by implication, of the human spirit generally. We sense that Cabiria's dun...


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