Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Leonardo The Road Of Felleni Have A Simple Story With Heavy Effecting And Meaning , The Girl Going With Zampano To Be His Assisstant In His Job , She Is Very Simple , Kind , Giulitte Masina Doing One Of A Best Acting In History , She Is Extraordinay , She,s Act Is Always Stay In Memory Of Any Cinematic Mind And Antonie Quienn Is Great Too , And This Two Make One Of A Memorable Movie In History. The Road Don,t Have Any Heavy ,Mind Blowing Or Twisted Movie , It,s Just Like We Sit In Car And Going In A Straight Road To See What We Should See, Meaning Of Living And Love Each Other When We Need That Not When It,s Past. Living In Moment And Drope Out The Pride Just Fell The Moments.

elvircorhodzic LA STRADA is a film about wandering and aimless life, the harsh truth and beautiful poetry. The film emphasizes the sadness, loneliness and need for love, purpose and understanding. The story is about an unusual friendship between strongman and mildly mentally retarded girl in the entertainment show.This film is a quite realistic and honest life's journey, in which lack of tenderness and compassion. It is fascinating that in said film does not express the tragedy nor exaggerated melodrama. Simple passions, fears and emotions is the easiest to recognize. In addition to expression and pantomime words are superfluous. Love hurts when it does not recognize.Acting is extremely touching. Anthony Quinn as Zampano in the role of a strong, simple and ruthless primitive. It is interesting to see how his characterization develops. The inherent solitude can not resist the poetry. Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina is versatile and all the story revolves around Gelsomina. Her eyes, sadness or joy on her face were enough to change human life. So much for the purpose.This is truly a beautiful film filled with sadness, humor and understanding.

rodrig58 How can you write about The God of Cinema, than in the manner in which it is said that the Bible was written, that is inspired by God himself? But that Fellini was still earthly, like me, with a biography similar to mine plus physically resemblance(Mussollini was for him what Ceausescu was for me...) so, I'm having easy words come to mind from somewhere in the ether, the infinite, where perhaps he, Fellini, still creates characters, directs, writes, draws, takes everything for his films which he never realized as long he lived on Earth. Very seriously, what can you write about La Strada? What can you write about the faces of Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina? About what they can express only by their presence? What about the music of Nino Rota? What can you write about the work of Fellini, who was going through the deepest depression, after his only child just died in real life? You can not write anything, you just got to see the film, again and again, and feel yourself what Fellini wanted to communicate to the world. The fact that La Strada won an Oscar, for me, is zero. I appreciate what is beyond the film, the simple message about life and love. I will only quote Zampano: "If there's any delicate person in the audience, I would advise him to look away 'cause there could be blood." Much more than 10.

DegustateurDeChocolat I was curious to watch this movie because I had seen many other Fellini's works but not this one. I was also told that was one of his best and so I was even more intrigued. I must say that I was surprised by how melancholic and sad it is. It reminded me of a Neo-Realistic movie for its scenes set in the city suburbs amongst people who struggle to carry on in every day life. Of course, other Fellini's movie had also these kinds of setting, but the Italian director paints his portrait of provincial Italy with more sad and crude hues, helped also by Gelsomina's melancholic recurring trumpet music theme, written by the great Nino Rota. However you can still see the Fellinesque style in "La Strada", for example in the irony in the scenes of the argument between Zampanò and the crazy guy. The circus certainly is another typical Fellini subject, present in many of his works. Overall a good movie but definitely not one of his best.