Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ Is a Lament for the Downtrodden
Fellini’s fable about an innocent clown roaming postwar Italy with an abusive strongman, La Strada, has the romance of his later epics but a more potent sense of tragedy.
Fellini’s fable about an innocent clown roaming postwar Italy with an abusive strongman, La Strada, has the romance of his later epics but a more potent sense of tragedy.
Fellini is the master of blurring the lines between the real and the surreal, demonstrating the overriding imbrication of the familiar and the fantastic. In The White Sheik, currently playing at NYC's Film Forum, he inspires wonder and bemusement.
While this movie is very, very Fellini in its circus parade of the contemporary world's chaos and noise, it also seems faithful to at least the spirit and structure of Cavazzoni's novel.