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

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

This Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film is always cited as one of Fellini's greatest.

| Mar 10, 2003

Cabiria's story is indeed heartrending, but neither director nor actress allow her time for self-pity.

| Mar 5, 2002

Through [Masina's] unforgettable performance, Cabiria will endure as long as anyone cares to watch transcendence projected on a screen.

| Feb 13, 2001

The gift of Cabiria's essence, freed from the determinism of stories, is to return us to our own.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's fascinating. Part of the fascination is in seeing how much of it is intrinsic, untarnished gold; and, as with most earlier works of masters, part of it now is in seeing the hints of the Fellini to come.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A deep, wrenching and eloquent filmgoing experience.

| Jan 1, 2000

The most perfectly beautiful and touching of Fellini's movies.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

As artificial as Cabiria's behavior sometimes seems, it always seems her own, and this little woman carries herself proudly through the gutters of Rome.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

One of the finest collaborations between husband and wife ever committed to film.

| Jan 1, 2000

Masina is immensely touching, through an extraordinary range of emotions.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000