Fellini’s true-to-life themes simmer throughout the picture, and many of them would resurface in “La Dolce Vita”. And at the core is Masina and her magnetic performance.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

I come away drowning in sympathy for its principal character, and the admiration for Giulietta Masina which I failed to experience with La Strada quite overwhelms me with the new film.

| Aug 9, 2022

Words cannot fully express the beauty and wonder of Giulietta Masina as Cabiria who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for this role.

| Dec 17, 2021

[Cabiria] is the story of ascesis, of renunciation, and, (however you choose to interpret the term) of salvation. The beauty and the rigor of its construction proceed this time from the perfect economy of its constituent episodes.

| Dec 9, 2021

Nights of Cabiria is very much a study of the strength of will and resilience in light of the resistance that life and the world place in Cabiria's path.

| Feb 28, 2021

Fellini and Masina's unique collaboration appears to demolish the wall between life and art, film and audience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 28, 2021

It's a terrific confection, and Fellini's pixie-ish wife Giulietta Masina gives a wonderfully rich, heartbreaking performance as the title character.

| Feb 28, 2021

Like La Strada, Fellini's other near-masterpiece, Cabiria has some of the limitations of an acting vehicle that sometimes loses its way on the road of life and forks out into the by-paths of a virtuoso performance.

| Feb 3, 2021

Giulietta Masina is phenomenal as Cabiria.

| Jan 23, 2021

The movie retains Fellini's narrative newness and his lucid disposition to film the reality he met on his way. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

Fellini's sad and magical nocturne, a demimonde hopping to Nino Rota's nightclub mambo and Masina's wondrous way with silent-movie throbs

| Jan 20, 2016

One of Fellini's most effective films -- probably the best of his neo-realist dramas.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2008

An overlooked masterpiece from Fellini.

| Oct 23, 2007

Fellini's masterpiece, which won the Foreign-Language Oscar, features Giulietta Masina (Fellini's wife) in her most heart-breaking performances, playing a naive prostitute who endures an endless series of devastating misfortunes with her soul intact.

| Original Score: A | Sep 6, 2006

Giulietta Masina's finest hour, and perhaps husband Federico Fellini's as well.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 29, 2006

Straightforward depiction of a lonely woman's desperate plight and inability to deal with evil and conniving men.

| Original Score: A | Jul 22, 2006

In 1957, Fellini was still as indebted to neo-realism as to surrealism, and this melancholy tale of a prostitute working the outskirts of Rome is notable for its straightforward depiction of destitution.

| Jan 26, 2006

What makes the character so poignant is that her final fortification is not her street wisdom -- that's all surface -- but her innocence. Her ultimate protection is our sympathy for her.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

One of Fellini's finest.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 19, 2005