Nights of Cabiria (Notti di Cabiria) Federico Fellini 1957

Cabiria made her debut in one scene of Fellini’s The White Shiek. What a spin off. She starts the movie frolicking with her boyfriend down by the river and he steals her purse and pushes her into the said river. Her luck continues in this way for the entire movie. She meets many characters in her nights in Rome plying her trade and trading barbs with her friends. She dances the mambo with a celebrity, she makes a pilgrimage to pray to the Virgin Mary, she is hypnotized on stage during a vaudeville performance. No matter the circumstance Giulietta Masina can find a way to make you smile. She portrays one of the most positive characters in film up against unimaginable difficulties. How does she keep going? It will amaze and delight you.

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