About Juliet of the Spirits/Giulietta degli spiriti
Master filmmaker Fellini partnered with his iconic wife and muse, Giulietta Masina, for this phantasmagoric character study, which is also the director’s first color feature. Drawing on details from her own life, Masina is Juliet, a woman dabbling in spiritualism and whose hold on reality begins to slip when she learns that her husband is having an affair, sending her on a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery in which memories, dreams, and supernatural forces merge in a kaleidoscopic gestalt. With virtuosic cinematography from Gianni di Venanzo and a fearless lead performance by Masina, this is one of Fellini’s most visionary films. [137 min; comedy, fantasy, drama; Italian with English subtitles]
"A mad, resplendent peacock of a film, a cinematographic riot of color and sensuality that evokes its era—the swinging mid-'60s—as much as any movie made during those giddy years." — Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"Fellini has put together an imperial-sized fantasy of a physical opulence to make the old Vincente Minnelli Metro musicals look like army training films." — Variety
"Sometimes the cinema is just heavenly, and this is one of those times." — Gregory Weinkauf, New Times (L.A.)
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