First Fellini. Struggled with this, because the brutish violence of Anthony Quinn’s Zampano is hard to stomach, which makes the Stockholm devotion of Gelsomina (a truly stunning performance by Masina–what a face) tough to root for or even to open up to. Still, there’s genuine emotion at the end in the mountains and I found myself feeling for the characters even in spite of myself. Worth a rewatch at some point.
A woman with (apparently) a mental disability gets sold to a street performer and joins him on the road. Sometimes he takes care of her, and sometimes (well, most of the time actually) he just treats her like her pet. The dialogues are contrived and overly sentimental, yet the surreal atmosphere makes everything feel coherent as some kind of bittersweet fairytale.
Shout by Saint PaulyBlockedParent2018-12-11T21:29:09Z
I feel like La Strada is a gift I was given that I thoroughly enjoy but have no idea what to do with.