Nights of Cabiria -- What Makes This Movie Great? (Episode 72)
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Federico Fellini's 1957 film "Nights of Cabiria" stars Julietta Massina in a wonderful, award-winning performance where she dances and looks charming. But the movie has a dark heart -- a prostitute spends several nights with different people, but will she ever find a social identity, acceptance, and even love?
This video reviews and analyzes the movie briefly, helping you to understand the major issues at play in Nights of Cabiria.
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I watched La Strada and Cabiria in the last week and loved both. Cabiria has to be one of the saddest films ever while ending with such a powerful shot of Cabiria's smile telling you " I'll survive this too. You can't defeat me"
man I though the La Strada ending was horrifically sad. thank you!
I've watched this film 2 times, the scene where Cabiria begged to Madonna and the ending scene is one of the most powerful scene in this film, Giulietta Masina performance in this film is amazing!
excellent. all films in this series are worth watching multiple times. Masina is a forgotten great.
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what actually touched me and came as a shock for me the most is the strong beautiful friendship you see so vibrant between Mary (cabiria) and her friend in the trade business and neighbor (Wanda) you might expect how weak and thin this friendship would be but as the film keeps going you just realize how wrong you are and that's what just makes it so beautiful for me.
thanks!
Giulietta Masina is in the ranks of the greatest actors who ever graced the silver screen (Chaplin, Keaton, Lemmon, Hepburn - you name it). She "makes" the film (as they say). Her performance is at the top of film history.
There have been certain actresses throughout time that embodied a pathos of both comedy and tragedy, Shirley Booth was one, Maureen Stapleton was another, Simone Signoret and Anna Magnani ....and Massina was derfinitely another that could provide a painfully raw glimpse into humanity; They draw you in and just break your heart.
Giulietta Masina is a real genius actress imo. So talented.
My favorite actress, ever... and Fellini is in my top 2 or 3 _artists_ ever.
@@Jimmy1982Playlists So true. Golden Age of film.
Best ending of all time imo
it is quite potent.
With obvious exceptions I often find the "Foreign" films from this time to be a million times better than the Hollywood ones, especially Dramas. They're just deeper and more nuanced explorations of human nature. Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Ozu, Ophüls... these guys were exceptional filmmakers.
I have watched La Strada once and found it way too downbeat and depressing.
I watched Nights of Cabiria tonight for the second time. I love this film. Cabiria is captivating. I find the film emotional but not depressing. There is so much energy in the film, mostly with the passionate way Italians communicate with each other.
I love the evening with the actor and the ending but I am captivated throughout.
Great film.
agree with all of this. thank you.
Both movies are fabulous! But Cabiria is my fav, the soundtrack is beautiful and haunting. I hope Giulietta won an award for either of these. ❤❤❤ Giulietta e Federico ❤❤❤
Just watched the movie for the second time. Wow what a fantastic movie. Masina was incredible. The love scene in the theatre is one of the greatest scenes in cinema history in my opinion.
thank you.
It is felinni! He was a master of his trade❤❤ amarcord is still my personal favourite.
the ending hurts so much
yes!
Thank You for this awesome interpretation of the film! Nights Of Cabiria is one of my all-time favorites! I've first seen the German dub version as a teenager, then several subtitled originals. The final scene makes me cry, no matter how many more times I'd watch it. I've missed many of the facts shown here, and certainly appreciate the information. Next time I see this classic, I'll be going in with even more interest.
great work! this is my favourite movie
thank you!
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thank you, John.
Love love love la strada. Bawled my eyes out, esp at the ending❤❤❤
very hard to watch that one -- so sad.
@@LearningaboutMoviesBecause it's so realistic. Italian men can be that way I found out.
Loved this movie. Actress, Guilietta Masina is amazing.
yes, indeed!
Answer: everything.
Both Giulietta Masina in this movie and in La Strada, and Charlie Chaplin as his ‘Tramp’ character, draw from very old theatrical comedy characters based in tCommedia Del’ Arte. Masina does not copy Chaplin. They both play this particular type of clown character, they play a role, in other words, a particular type. They are both clowns.
Chaplin, perhaps the most famous person in the world at the time, is the film antecedent anybody would have thought of, including a film genius like Fellini.
Giulietta is an incredible actress.
It's somewhat of an in-between film, as Fellini was leaving his neo-realist roots, and was about to create his own personal style, that can only be called "Fellini-esque".
(BTW the pick up was an actor.)
The ending is my favorite ever.
Also, you need to see the restored version, which gives the third act more sense, and makes her motivation clearer.
Thank you
Wow. You are really smart. I thought it was just a sweet story. I saw this in high school for the first time. She was impish and tough. To me it will always be about not giving up on life. But that isn't a very sophisticated interpretation, I guess.
Thanks for the great video.
Thanks. What you are saying seems right and makes good sense.
You mentioned that you have a couple of Fellini movies you like. Which is the other?
Amarcord. I'll be going through the Fellini boxset this summer and probably making a few videos based on that experience.
@@LearningaboutMovies Amarcord = one of the all time bests!
where can i find this film in english subtitles?
Criterion previously offered it on DVD, which is long out of print. Criterion currently has it available in their Blu-Ray collection "Essential Fellini". Hopefully at some point they'll release it on a single Blu-Ray disc. It is also available through some streaming services, but it doesn't seem Criterion is one of them, so the quality might be suspect. You might check if you could borrow "Essential Fellini" through a local library or inter-library loan.
Your reviews are very good. I may suggest you review The Cremator a great relatively less known Czech movie about psychological indoctrination.
Thanks for your thoughts on this. Really good movie. For whatever reason I saw La Strada years ago & only got to this earlier this year (probably accessibility). I didn't interpret the gender politics quite so much in it but certainly saw the themes around how disingenuous people can be & the dangers of trusting others. Hoping for a stand alone Criterion release of this again (OOP & box set too expensive for me when I, like you, don't like all of Fellini). Def didn't appreciate 8 1/2 till my late 30s but it is pretty great. But I didn't love La Dolce Vita & Amarcord was borderline hard to watch for me. However this, La Strada, & 8 1/2 are all favorites... thanks!
you're welcome. at some point within the next year, I'll get to Amarcord and try to help!
8 1/2 Is too cerebral for me, too much dialogs and few emotions. Life must me faced and enjoyed, not talked about.
My favourite movie of all time
wow, great!
@@LearningaboutMovies It's my favorite movie of all time, too. You (Josh Mathews) don't mention anything about the sound track, which is sublime. Just as good--if not better--than any of the others composed by Nino Rota.
Fabulous movie.
That you may not be the biggest Fellini fan gives me hope for enjoying this film. While I didn't necessarily dislike them, I found La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Amarcord aimless, and I just didn't "get" them. I prefer stories that are a little more strictly structured, and it looks as though Nights of Cabiria adheres to a more traditional narrative than those other Fellini films. I'll check it out.
I need to study him to figure out what I think. Give what you're saying, yes, you probably will appreciate this movie a touch more.
You are probably not Italian. Italians and their general provincialism is hard to understand if you are not Italian.
Education is not as much of a priority in Italy. Mothers spoil their sons and Fellini really exposed this in his movies.
The Italian reverence for the Catholic Church (in theory but not practice!) means that much of their religion is superstition. This Catholic superstition injects a sort of "magical thinking" into the Italian consciousness.
To most Italian Catholics, Mary is more important than Jesus Christ and so in Italy and for most Italians, Catholicism is self created.
Fellini understood all of this. La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Amarcord are not aimless and hard to understand.
They are dreamlike and progress with the logic of dreams. There is love behind Fellini's film creations: love for Italian people and love for the fantasies he is able to create about Italians.
Yes, you don't love Fellini movies if you are a prisoner of plot. Fellini is a "dream" writer and director. His movies are dreams!
@@leoinsf Yes, in watching Fellini's films, "dreamlike" is one word I would use to describe them. You're writing about something that I've always found really interesting, which is how people from one culture can understand art from another. I live in Kansas City, and we have a huge art museum that has multiple sections focusing on certain parts of the world. While I found something interesting in every section, I was drawn most to the European area, which has a lot of traditional paintings and sculptures, whereas the Asian, African, and South American areas dealt not only with unique forms of art, they also seemed to be based on cultural icons and symbols I'm not familiar with. As with foreign films, there are a lot of directors whose work I enjoy a lot because it's accessible to me--such as Kurosawa, Bergman, and Tarkovsky (whose films have an interesting mix of Russian identity and spiritual universality)--while there are others whom I do not like as much, partly because their work is so strongly tied to the culture from which it came, such as Fellini and Mizoguchi. I do appreciate the opportunities watching these films give me to experience ideas and ways of living that I am not accustomed to seeing, and I hope that watching more of these films--as well as seeing other works of art and meeting different people--continues to afford me that growth in my understanding.
@@achasingafterthewind I respect your wonderful reasoning about how people differ about their appreciation of art from other countries.
I truly understand that people might not like such nationalistic movie makers such as Fellini.
Do give "Nights of Cabiria" a shot. It has a more unified story and appeals to pure emotion which is universal to all movie lovers.
@@leoinsf off topic but Italians remind me so much of my own Ukrainian people. Certain cultural similarities and the melodious languages, or maybe it’s just my admiration for the Italians which makes me see these things, idk lol
Anyways, I am wondering though, do you think it’s a safe bet to start with Nights of Cabiria and jump to 8 1/2 right after or should I mix in a couple other films of his somewhere before 8 1/2? In general I’m a huge cinephile but new to Fellini but also watching with my parents who aren’t as crazy about cinema as me so I’m thinking maybe they’ll need to be eased into his style more before watching that film.
They don’t get married! They “intend” to but Oscar obviously is out to con her
thanks for the correction.
Only Fellini movie that I like. Who doesn't adore Giulietta Masina?
yes!
I don't remember Cabiria getting married to that guy. He just stole her money. Are you sure? PS. there are a couple of versions out there. One has an added scene that adds nothing to the movie and is somewhat of a distraction. Another version is dubbed. Not good. Part of the fun is listening to the Italians speaking in Italian. Their expressions and Italian is a funny language anyway. The version that is dubbed deprives you of all that. Yes, you have to be distracted by reading the subtitles, and there, I believe, two subtitle versions. It's a messy mess. But find the one you like and buy it. It's a great movie. And I'm no Fellini fan.
not sure. you mean the one at the end?
@@LearningaboutMovies Yes