I think "La Strada" is part of a process of discovery that led to the masterpieces " La Dolce Vita" (1960), " 8 1/2" (1963) and " Amarcord" (1974), and to the bewitching films he made in between, like " Juliet of the Spirits" (1965) and " Fellini's Roma" (1972). It is fashionable to call it his best work - to see the rest of his career as a long slide into self-indulgence. The movie is the bridge between the postwar Italian neorealism which shaped Fellini, and the fanciful autobiographical extravaganzas which followed. Like a painter with a few favorite themes, Fellini would rework these images until the end of his life. Federico Fellini's "La Strada" (1954) tells a fable that is simple by his later standards, but contains many of the obsessive visual trademarks that he would return to again and again: the circus, and parades, and a figure suspended between earth and sky, and one woman who is a waif and another who is a carnal monster, and of course the seashore.
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