Title: La Strada
Year: 1954 (Italy), 1956 (US)
Director: Federico Fellini
Writer: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli & Ennio Flaiano
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Music: Nino Rota
Distinctions: Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (1957); Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (1957); currently #215 on IMDb's Top 250
Synopsis: a girl is sold to a traveling performer
How I saw it: on video (rented form Netflix), March 2008
Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent).
Objective Rating: 7/10 (points off for dialog, cinematography and subjective rating) c. 3.1/4 (Very good).
Kind of boring. Not my sort of thing, but well done. If you dig literary analysis and tragic characters, go for it. The music is great (as you might expect from Rota). The main character's (Masina's) acting is so bad it's good; very memorable.
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