The nights of Cabiria was Fellini’s seventh movie and his second Academy Award (1958), securing his international movie stardom. It also marked the beginning of his love affair with the city of Rome.
The story unfolds in the city’s most depressed and seedy circles. Cabiria is a prostitute unlucky in love. The movie starts out with Cabiria flirting carelessly with a lover by the river; he snatches her purse and pushes her into the Tiber. Dragged by the current, Cabiria almost drowns but is rescued by some locals. When she revives, she jumps up and, undaunted by her almost lethal experience, runs away to get hold of the man. Back home, she collects all his belongings and destroys them in a big fire.
After a long series of meetings and adventures with nasty guys, Cabiria eventually meets Oscar, a regular bank employee. Unlike her other men, he is kind and interested in her. For a while she does not trust him though, and keeps her guard up toward him. But not for long: after going out with Oscar a few times, she falls madly in love with him, and they decide to marry. One day, while walking with him in a wooden area overlooking a lake, Cabiria realizes that Oscar is trying to throw her off a cliff. She suddenly understands that he is exactly like her awful previous lovers and is only after her money. Since she has sold all of her belongings, including her house, her purse is full and she throws it at his feet. Crying and sobbing she begs him to kill her, but he is too coward to do it, and simply runs away with her purse. Cabiria stumbles out of the woods in tears, and walks back toward the city. Soon enough a group of youngsters, on scooters and in high spirits, spot her and put up an impromptu festive parade around her, with music and songs. Cabiria cannot but stop crying, and start smiling again.
Italy- 1957, b/w, 118 min.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Film in Italian with English subtitles
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THE DIRECTOR
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) is one of Italy’s most prominent movie directors of all times. With his five Academy Awards, he is the director who has won the highest number of Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. His style has left a mark on cinema history and is known for a distinctive blending of fantasy, dream-like baroque images and a very concrete kind of realism.
Among his features: I vitelloni 1953, La strada 1954, La dolce vita 1960, 8 e ½ 1963, Giulietta degli spiriti 1965, Satyricon 1969, Amarcord 1974, Fellini’s Casanova 1976, Prova d’orchestra 1978, E la nave va 1983, La voce della luna 1990.
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