Nov 22, 2020 · La Strada tells the story of Gelsomina, an innocent and poor young woman, whose mother sells her to Zampanò, a traveling showman. Zampanò uses ...

Feb 22, 2021 · La Strada is structurally, and titularly, a road film; “la strada” literally means “the road” in Italian. As a road movie, its plot is driven by ...

The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who ...

Jul 19, 2019 · Zampano knows this mute woman was Gelsomina and after drinking excessively, he stumbles to the beach where everything just sinks in. I love this ...

Feb 25, 2021 · To be weak and kindhearted if you are a woman and cruel and cowardly if you're a man.

Feb 9, 2014 · And that leaves us wanting more for this innocent (that is how we perceive her), this open and loving individual; our hope by film's end is ...

Nov 2, 2021 · A film of despair and optimism, cruelty and salvation, and its own clandestine sense of humor, La strada contains philosophical and spiritual ...

Apr 1, 1994 · ... ending in a rude trumpet squawk, which Zampano teaches to Gelsomina, is mirrored in the nightclub scene in "La Dolce Vita"). When Fellini ...