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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780022225
Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 078002222X
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 07, 1999
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 16103
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
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Giulietta Masina won Best Actress at Cannes as the title character of one of Fellini's most haunting films. Oscar® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) is the tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in the seediest sections of Rome. Criterion proudly presents the restored director's cut in a breathtaking new transfer.
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A year after his international breakthrough film La Strada, Federico Fellini and his leading lady/wife Giulietta Masina collaborated on another masterpiece, a magical mix of neorealism and romantic optimism set on the streets of Rome. Masina's moon-faced and bright-eyed Cabiria is a passionate streetwalker with a heart as big as Italy and the emotional spontaneity of a child, a woman with a hearty passion for life whose constant weakness is falling in love with mercenary creeps. For a couple of hours we share the dreams and disillusionments of Cabiria as she rattles around Rome before once again losing her heart. The bittersweet heartbreak is tempered with a soaring celebration of the human spirit: no other Fellini film offers such honest hope in the face of such bitter devastation. Fellini left the poor and the working class to revel in the decadence of Rome's high society for his next film, La Dolce Vita, a film that could have sprung from Cabiria's hilarious chance interlude with a matinee idol (played by Amedeo Nazzari). Rambling and leisurely paced, Nights of Cabiria is a sweet film of warmth and simple grace. It became the basis of Neil Simon's American musical Sweet Charity, with Shirley Maclaine taking Masina's role in Bob Fosse's film version. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating: - What Pretty Woman Should Have Been
I hated Pretty Woman (15th Anniversary Special Edition)-a whore on Hollywood Boulevard meets Prince Charming! Ughh. So when I read the description of Nights of Cabiria, I wasn't keen. But I like Fellini, so decided to give Nights of Cabiria a chance.
This is a wonderful film. Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina stars as Cabiria, an older woman who "lives the life" in Rome. She lives in Rome's poorest neighborhood, Ostia, but is fiercely proud of being very close to paying off her mortgage. One day she goes with friends to make a pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary and asks for her life to change. Shortly thereafter she meets Oscar and believes the Virgin has blessed her with true love. Like Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, Oscar has his own ideas about how to set Cabiria up for life!
Giulietta Masina is remarkable in this film. She delivers one of the best female performances I've seen in my life. This script is excellent. And Fellini's direction brilliant.
The Criterion restoration of this film is very good-among the best I've seen Criterion produce. The extras, including original previews and shorts from another film with Giulietta playing a much younger prostitute are excellent. Puts "modern classics" like Pretty Woman to shame.
See also Criterions release of other Fellini classics like 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection, La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition), and other lesser known Fellini films like Il Bidone and La Strada - Criterion Collection.
Rating: - My most favorite movie in 45 years of watching films
I first saw this film many years ago, but the funny thing is that I love it only more as the decades go by.
This is especially a good film for people to watch who have a lot of pain in their lives, because Cabiria shows us how she got that too, and how she always gets up, dusts herself off and gets back in the game -- nay, joins the parade.
There are many things I love about this film. It tells us so much of the world and Cabiria shows us a glimpse of the Divine coming through the personae. (How fitting that even her name, Cabiria, is a form of a word representing ancient divine deities.)
Falling in love with Cabiria helped me also to fall in love with me.
I would also like to mention how grateful I am that this film is still in black and white. It is true art.
I have called other films my favorite, but in the end -- as of 2008 -- this is THE favorite. (Other contenders are very different though very good, such as TRUE ROMANCE which was written but not directed by Quentin Tarantino.)
Rating: - lovely and disturbing
One of my fave movies of all time. Enough said. Original in plot, characters, and conflict. Watch it, and then be prepared to own it and love it.
Rating: - Surprisingly, a powerful emotional experience...
Fellini's most powerful films actually PRECEDE the (in my opinion) over-praised '8 1/2' for the simple reason that the heart is more powerful than the head (for me at least). There are few movies with this kind of enduring emotional appeal - and I must stress this is not cheap, sentimental emotion. Movies are products of their time and often age quickly; 'Cabiria' is an extraordinary film experience, but perhaps one must see it twice to fully enter a world created by Fellini a half-century ago. In any event, most people who enjoy movies are unfamiliar with 'Cabiria', which is stunning to realize after fully experiencing it.
I am almost ashamed to admit that I did not appreciate this movie the first time I saw it (only the second time, and then even more the third time, the fourth, etc....)
Fellini in the 1950's with 'La Strada' and 'Cabiria' created at least two films that will always affect viewers emotionally for one simple reason: Fellini's ability to explore and ultimately celebrate our humanity within the hell life can often be for many of us. The power of 'La Strada' is the complex humanity of the two main characters (though Quinn's character only understands how horrible it is emotionally to be fully human in the final minute of the movie; Giulietta Masini's character denies none of her humanity at any point in 'La Strada' and is brutally punished for her inability to edit-out life horrors).
Because 'Cabiria' is now 50 years old it is best watched ... Read More
Rating: - Unforgettable and beautiful!
This is my favorite movie by Federico Fellini---my favorite movie ever!
You must see it! You will fall in love with Cabiria, Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Italy, and your own fragile, beautiful , self---and strength of
spirit. This is what art can do!
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