Italian Film Night
Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 07:00 PM

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is pleased to present Italian Film Night on Tuesday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. in room 212 of the Eddy Building.

Federico Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria": 1957, in Italian with English subtitles,  110 minutes, in black and white.

"Le Notti di Cabiria" stands as one of Fellini's best because of the character of that invincible woman at the center of the story: Cabiria.  Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account and dreams of a miracle.   As we follow her nights, a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire from her and nearly drowns her;  a movie star on the Via Veneto takes her home with him; at a local shrine she seeks the Madonna's intercession, and then she meets an accountant who has seen her, hypnotized on a vaudeville stage, acting out her heart's longings.  He promptly courts her.  Is it fate that led to their meeting?  Is this finally a man who appreciates her for who she is?

For more information, contact Lynn Barnes at Lynn.Barnes@colostate.edu or (970) 491-5510.