Le Notti di Cabiria aka Nights of Cabiria
Director. Federico Fellini: France/Italy, 1957, 110 minutes, 16mm Cabiria is an ageing prostitute who plies her trade in a desolate redlight district outside Rome. The film follows Cabiria through a series of incidents during her nights (and days). Nights of Cabiria won an Oscar for best foreign picture and a best actress award at Cannes for Giulietta Masina, who also happened to be Fellini's wife. Nights of Cabiria was the last film in which Fellini tried to make sense of an increasingly fragmented, chaotic Italian society. In Masina's brilliant incarnation of the simple-minded, doomed prostitute a character the director called the 'fallen sister' of La Strada's celebrated Gelsomina he found an ideal vehicle for attacking the Church, the class system, movie star culture, and all the other forces destroying the lives of ordinary people. With his next film, La Dolce Vita, his neorealist voice would become quieter; in a few years, it would vanish entirely as Fellini drifted deeper into a private fantasy world. Gary Morris, Bright Lights Film Journal. Internet Movie Database listing
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