Richard Basehart
Occupation
Actor
La Strada Review
Essential
La Strada begins and ends with two of Federico Fellini's most simple yet memorable images.Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, who was Fellini's wife) is walking along a bright and uninhabited beach. She's in the low corner of the frame, a diminutive figure with her back to us, facing an endless stretch of white sand going off to one side and the infinite vastness of sea and sky going the other. Tentatively, yet hopefully, she moves forward. In a few seconds we know this character.
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