Nearly 40 years after the film was made, the parable of redemption hidden beneath an apparently picaresque plot had become even more compelling and lyrical.” “La Strada is the movie that perhaps I loved the most.” “The theme for Fellini's spiritual fable is that everyone has a purpose in the universe.

La strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano.

Like many of the best neorealist films, La Strada is melodramatic, in the sense that its emotional tenor is rooted in the suffering of the moral figure, the abuse of the hidden and ignored who actually are the ones who can offer redemption to the world.

The circus gives viewers a glimpse into Fellini's mind and moviemaking, showing what inspired him and why circus arts, acrobats, clowns – and the whimsical fantasy and extravagance surrounding the circus – were, in Fellini's view, a perfect metaphor for life itself with all its mysteries and magic as well as the ...