Juliet of the Spirits

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Alain E @AlainE Aug 3 It is supposed to be part of the canon, but today this looks self indulgent. It is visually compelling, enhanced with the restoration of the color imaging. The story is threadbare: a middle aged bourgeois woman has strong suspicions that her husband has a much younger girlfriend. Most of the movie is elaborately staged imaginary sequences. In the end it appears that she is left alone but decides against killing hersef. RT gives the duration as 2:28 hours, but on MAX is ten minutes shorter. Unclear if this implies censorship of nudity. Rotten Tomatoes typically has pictures of the cast decades older than the movie. Here Fellini appears eternally young. See more Thomas V 01/04/2023 I know this isn't considered Fellini's best but this is so much fun! The use of color is gorgeous, and Fellini's wife is terrific playing such a unique character. And I just love her facial expressions. She's even better here than in La Strada. See more William L 06/19/2021 Everything that people love and hate about Fellini; his passion for the surreal and the bizarre, the vaguely structured narratives, and the extravagant set pieces to make sure the audience doesn't get too uninterested when the storyline becomes 'open to interpretation'. Personally, I'm pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to film interpretation - I don't like to be led by the hand, but when films become so subjective that virtually every aspect can be construed in wildly different ways, it all starts to get pretentious. Fellini's films toe that line of instilling confusion for its own sake, but at the same time the director is so creative with his visuals, and here such discord actually makes narrative sense - Masina's Giulietta undergoes a mental struggle with her own sense of self as her marriage faces a gradual collapse and she must confront the reality of her own aging, and as a response either imagines or heavily embellishes a range of eccentric characters that revolve around love, sex, or faithfulness, often featuring input from her own memory. That said, the film definitely does get very strange at points, particularly towards the end, with plenty of self-references featuring borderline manic content. The weirdness can be either a major differentiator in a sea of films that take on marital strife in a very conventional manner, or it can just feel too 'out there' to meet personal tastes. Dreamlike, poetic, and surreal, to the point where it seems like it requires a certain mood to properly enjoy. (3.5/5) See more 07/15/2020 A psychodrama such as only Fellini could create, uncovering the suppressed inhibitions and sexual conflicts of a woman in crisis as the certainties upon which she has built her reality - her faith, her moral values, her relationships - collapse. Crazy, hilarious, complex, disturbing, and visually stunning in this beautifully restored version. A cinematic treat from one of the all-time greats. See more 01/14/2020 As usual, Fellini is clever. This movie got real depressing real quick. I lost steam with it 75% of the way through. See more 07/26/2019 always balancing the world on her smile la Madonna Giulietta Masinas See more Read all reviews

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