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Originally Posted by Count Mecha
This movie was great. Super sad and felt like a bunch of little mini movies which was really neat. Giulietta Masina is absolutely intoxicating in it and she steals every scene (as she should, being the lead). But now I think I could watch everything she's been in. Fellini sure manages a really bleak atmosphere through means I can't even put together. I'm not sure if it was intended to be an anti-male picture, but almost every guy in this picture is an absolute puss. Moochers, faux macho bravado, chauvinists, and more of the same. The end is terrific, and not even a surprise, but works on some level that's really moving. Thank God there's no dialogue during it. Fantastic.
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I'd definitely recommend you see La Strada if you liked Masina in Nights of Cabiria. A beuatiful film. I sometimes wonder about the roles Fellini gave to Masina (his real life wife). There's a cruelty about them but Masina herself was apparently completely happy with it. And did you know the Shirley MacLaine musical Sweet Charity was a remake of Nights of Cabiria?