Streaming La Strada - Criterion Collection Online
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Streaming La Strada - Criterion Collection Online.
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I first saw LA STRADA within a few years of its original release. I still remember how I felt when I saw Gelsomina’s face and heard her play her few melancholy notes on the violin. Almost fifty years later I can still see that face and hear those notes. I have to admit that I’d never heard of Federico Felini or his wife, Giulietta Masina. I didn’t know that, in time, LA STRADA would be labeled a work of genius. I did know, by the way that it affected me, that I had been exposed to something exceptional. I pictured myself as a pretty macho guy back then, and I wasn’t supposed to walk out of a movie theater with tears in my eyes. Luckily, no one saw me when I did.
For most of the movie, I wanted to take Gelsomina in my arms and protect her. I wanted to wrap a piece of Zampano’s chain around his neck and strangle him with it. I wanted to grab “The Fool” by the shoulders and shake him and tell him, “If you keep taunting that bully he’s going to make you pay for it.”
Poor Gelsomina, I couldn’t do a thing for her. “The Fool” was really a fool for not heeding my silent warnings and it cost him his life. As for Zampano, he would have been better off if I could have strangled him. His pain, a result of the pain he had caused, was worse than any punishment I could have dealt out.
My criteria as to what makes a movie great is a very personal one. It’s also a very simple one. I don’t look for multiple layers of symbolism or any other intellectual gobbledygook. It’s how I react emotionally. On that score, LA STRADA is right up there at the top of my list.
In a previous review, I was concerned about two sections on the “English” dubbed audio track, in which the sound completely dropped out. I just received an email from Jon Mulvaney (who represents Criterion). Here is an excerpt of that email: [The English language dubbed track on Criterion’s LA STRADA is derived from a print of the American version of the film. Several minor cuts were made for the American release, and the disparities between the complete Italian cut of LA STRADA and its shorter American counterpart have resulted in a number of unavoidable audio dropouts on the English-dubbed track on the DVD. This is not a flaw in the DVD of La Strada but an accurate reflection of the Italian and American versions and an indication of the cuts that were made for the American release.] Many thanks to Mr. Mulvaney for looking further into the problem and getting right back to me. In short, we have the definitive version of La Strada (compliments of Criterion), and there is no need to return the DVD to Amazon or Criterion.
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