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La Strada
A Fellini circus film -- yes, yes, all Fellini films are circuses, but this is a literal one, about a brutish strongman, the simple-minded waif he brutalizes, and a philosophical clown. It is closer to the sawdust of circuses than to the cotton candy of them -- as in Fellini's much later The Clowns. Overrated on most counts, particularly the waif-impersonation of Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, it is undeniably lugubrious, but perhaps deniably tragic. Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart. 1955.
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MPAA Rating: NR
