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

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

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

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

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

Certainly the picture is brilliantly directed in the physical sense, well acted and hard to shake off in its after-effect. Of these plus qualities I am most appreciative: the doubts I raise are only relative to the picture's ultimate meaning.

| Sep 14, 2022

It was made for those who love the unusual in pictures, and who like to have their imaginations set to work by sensitive acting, direction and camera glories.

| Sep 14, 2022

It is a very fine drama, the finest from Italy in a long time, by far the best foreign film released here this year.

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

La Strada, which means "The Road," will have as much meaning 100 years from now as it does today when it serves to rank its author-director Federico Fellini with Rossellini and De Sica as creative talents of the Italian cinema.

| Sep 14, 2022

Long, episodic, unflinching, yet steeped in compassion, La Strada gratefully recognizes even a spark of beauty in the disordered filth and turmoil of its people's sad little lives.

| Sep 14, 2022

Anthony Quinn gives a devastating performance as a man who has no heart or time for kindness until too late. He dominates the screen in compelling and completely capable fashion. What an actor he is!

| Sep 14, 2022

A highly moving melodrama of love and passions portrayed in the Neo-realistic style of some Italian movies.

| Sep 14, 2022

Simple beauty is such a rare quality in films these days, when serious filmmakers everywhere seem to be turning to harshness and protest, that the tender humanity and compassion of this absorbing drama from Italy shine all the stronger.

| Nov 17, 2021

It holds its own, more than six decades on. If Giulietta Masina and Anthony Quinn's tragic two-step doesn't break your heart, then Nino Rota's score will.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 6, 2017

Undeniably powerful, but also very sentimental at times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 19, 2017

Early mush from the master, Federico Fellini.

| Apr 27, 2009

Symbols, metaphors, and larger-than-life performances hold sway, and moments of bizarre if inconsequential charm abound.

| Feb 9, 2006