Federico Fellini: Le notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Back to one of Federico Fellini's masterworks in black and white, Le notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria (1957), starring Giulietta Masina in the lead role as an Italian prostitute in crisis. Fantastic.  

In Nights of Cabiria, Fellini is able to make trenchant observations about class, poverty, celebrity, wealth, the complexities of the Catholic Church, gender, money issues and the post-World War II Italian social milieu.

Cabiria has fights, dreams, hopes and fears, heightened by the dangers of her profession. Here she finds a "lucky interlude" with a movie star.   

Nights of Cabiria is another film for the ages.  And oh, yeah: it's also highly entertaining. 

Today's Rune: Protection.