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THE GREAT WAY TO ROME (June 30, 1955)

interest and discussions raised almost everywhere by Federico Fellini's film Le Grand Chemin ( La Strada) are inconceivable in the context of a simultaneous extreme impoverishment of Cinema and intelligence critical of bourgeois intellectuals.

Some want to see a new neo-realism, as they say a new New French Review, others swoon with admiration by recognizing a sort of byproduct of mimicry of Chaplin in the character of Gelsomina, almost all are Blind repugnant about idealistic intentions of a film which is a glorification of material poverty and all the destitution, an invitation to resignation came particularly politically in Italy today where unemployment, low wages and that bitch of Pius XII have a combined action to create the serial character Zampano.

We know that idealism always leads to the Church, or the various substitutes that replace it in the superstructures of society. In the case of Fellini thing is so clear that he should himself without blushing: "I know such an idea might not be welcomed in an era where we prefer to give as a remedy for present suffering only abstract solutions, but after La Strada, I hope that once again the human and spiritual solutions will be well received, "said he to June 14 a correspondent of Figaro in Rome to prepare for the announcement repeated as the It Bidone , and he is not afraid to add: "... And the film ends with the presumption of another impending hell postmortem. I would like, after seeing this film, men are more prone to good. "

Evidence does not even an idiot like Robert Benayoun - already capable, in October 1954 to sign the leaflet Familiar Grand Truc by which his friends, so surreal, we draw the attention of police - of write to the No. 13 Positive :

"La Strada was taken by some for a Christian film, on the pretext that a scene going on in a convent. The laughter takes me to the mistake. "

Rideau.

"The Great Road that leads to Rome" Potlatch. Newsletter of the French group of the International Lettrist , Number 21, June 30, 1955 (Editor: M. Dahou, 32 rue de la Montagne-Geneviève, Paris 5e.)