Giulietta Masina,
Amedeo Nazzari,
Franca Marzi,
François Périer,
Riccardo Fellini
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Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he shoves her into the water and steals her purse. Cabiria is revived by some l... read more
DVD Release Date: September 7, 1999
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May 16, 2012Giulietta Masina ("La strada") is absolutely devastating in her role as the titular Cabiria in "Nights of Cabiria" (and when I say devastating, I mean it only in the best sense). Cabiria is quite a character to say the least. A prostitute who puts on a big loud and tough exteri... read more
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October 29, 2010Giulietta Masina was a great actress. I preferred her character in La Strada but her performance in Nights of Cabiria is much stronger. I've not seen Sweet Charity but I'm aware of it and I'm quite shocked at the audacity of it, I shan't judge until I've viewed it for myself but ... read more
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February 10, 2010there is no mountain top that fellini seems that he is trying to reach here, but the film works on so many other levels that it ends up being exceptional anyway. by following cabiria, we get a wonderful and often scathing look into roman night life, from her exploits with the ri... read more
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April 28, 2009Fellini puts the loveable Giulietta Masina through yet another tragic set of circumstances. Here she's a prostitute who dreams of finding her one true love, even though her heart is repeatedly broken by a series of men with ill intentions. Masina's irrepressible impish charm co... read more
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August 1, 2008The formation of a friendship through a warm greeting, Nights of Cabiria transcends the structure of a character study to welcome forth an embodiment of life and the introduction to a lovable figure. Where Nights of Cabiria truly finds its strength is through its title character,... read more
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July 27, 2007Definitely good. For the first hour I was paying more attention to what was going on around Cabiria than what was actually happening with her. Once the hypnotism scene happened it was all her. The ending on this one is talked up quite a bit. The lead up to it was more interesting... read more
Critic Reviews
July 21, 2005
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
May 19, 2005
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Even in the mutilated version of the film, Masina shone and sparkled in her shabby role. Full Review
February 13, 2001
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Through [Masina's] unforgettable performance, Cabiria will endure as long as anyone cares to watch transcendence projected on a screen. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The gift of Cabiria's essence, freed from the determinism of stories, is to return us to our own. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Masina is immensely touching, through an extraordinary range of emotions. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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. Full Review
January 1, 2000
David Denby, New York Magazine
The most perfectly beautiful and touching of Fellini's movies. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
A must-see item -- a sad, compassionate tale of street life that resonates with a magic missing from even our best summer films, whose only goal is to jar us. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic
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 t...
January 1, 2000
Janet Maslin, New York Times
A deep, wrenching and eloquent filmgoing experience. Full Review
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