If there’s one thing we can take away from the story of La Strada and the character of Gelsomina, it’s that behind every great showman there’s a great woman.

| Jul 31, 2024

Like any deeply felt and realized symbol, La Strada is at once nuclear and radiating; within its deceptively simple span, an eternal pattern and a prophecy are established.

| Jan 30, 2024

It carries with it, in a sublime and sad way, Fellini's neorealist spirit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 13, 2023

Federico Fellini’s beautiful story of a woman...

| Mar 1, 2023

The vitality of the Italian cinema is confirmed for us once again by this wonderful film of Federico Fellini's.

| Oct 4, 2022

Even if one rejects the concepts of this movie, its mood and the details of scenes stay with one; a year or two later, a gesture or a situation suddenly brings it all back.

| Sep 14, 2022

Its two American stars, Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart, are both excellent, but the picture belongs to a funny-faced, likable little Italian actress, Giulietta Masina.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 14, 2022

Anthony Quinn as the strong man and Richard Basehart as a derisive rival are excellent. As the girl, Giulietta Masina is extraordinarily touching and gives a performance hard to forget.

| Sep 14, 2022

There is a tenderness and pity in almost every scene which cannot be defined in words. That is the miracle of Federico Fellini's direction.

| Sep 14, 2022

The way La Strada moves within a consistent reality of its own creating, without fumbling or straining for effects, gives a suddenly new impression of what movie-making competence might look like.

| Sep 14, 2022

A touching story of a simple-minded waif and the carnival strongman who holds her in thrall, this belongs in the fine Neo-realistic tradition of Rossellini and De Sica.

| Sep 14, 2022

Acting by Quinn and Basehart is tops, but Giulietta Masina, one of Italy's best performers, easily steals show with her clownish mimicry, a job which should finally earn her more consistent work in local pix.

| Sep 14, 2022

[Giulietta Masina] is an actress whose expressive face and expansive performance will linger long in memory. After the sordid events have faded, her face will still be shining.

| Sep 14, 2022

Quinn's rough mastery of his crude little show, his bull rage in the face of perplexity or new circumstances, and Basehart's inhuman agility and asexual glee are pantomime creatures of a high order.

| Sep 14, 2022

Obviously, La Strada is not for everyone or anyone. It veers on the arty, but thinking about it later, you'll find it had something to say.

| Sep 14, 2022

Much is written these days about the sanctity of human life. I can recall no illustration of that principle which has disturbed me more.

| Sep 14, 2022

A strange work -- none the less original because the ingenious may trace in it influences from Chaplin to the Commedia dell’Arte -- is directed by Federico Fellini with poetic imagination, power and a notable economy of means.

| Sep 14, 2022

This is an extraordinary film, a fierce tragedy but one which, for all its relentless realism, can be tender, pathetic, and, finally, touched with hope. It is a film which must not be missed.

| Sep 14, 2022

I am reasonably certain that La Strada will be talked about for months to come, and I shall be surprised if Giulietta Masina is not picked as one of the leading actresses of the year.

| Sep 14, 2022

In directing this piece of vagabondage, Federico Fellini spares the audience nothing in the way of bestiality and degradation; this is realism crowing on a dung-hill.

| Sep 14, 2022