A streetwalker faces adversity with a smile in Fellini’s picaresque fable, here including the ‘man with the sack’ sequence unseen since its
Giulietta Masina enchants as the tart with a heart whose misadventures went on to inspire Sweet Charity. Yet her episodic story – infused equally with romantic fantasy and neo-realist grit – is much tougher, as our own Philip Kemp explains in an accompanying interview.
Neil Smith
