Nights of Cabiria . Austin Chronicle . 10-12-98

Nights of Cabiria

DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini

REVIEWED: 10-12-98

This Academy Award-winner for best foreign film is always cited as one of Fellini's best. The 1957 film showcases the virtuoso performance of Guilietta Masina. With the indomitable demeanor of a Chaplinesque naïf, she plays a shabby streetwalker who dreams of happier times. The movie was later adapted as the play Sweet Charity. This newly released version is probably the closest thing to the real "director's cut" we'll ever see; this print restores one additional sequence that was cut from the original, reportedly due to pressure from the Catholic Church.

--Marjorie Baumgarten

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