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JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

by Federico Fellini

synopsis

Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits a psychic seer who tells her she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy. Not long after she meets her eccentric and sexy neighbour, Suzy, who, by all counts appears to be a high class prostitute and encourages Juilet into sexual acts which make her guilty and nervous. A rare night when her husband is at home she wakes up to catch him talking to another woman on the phone. He calls out the name "Gabriella" while sleeping, but when she questions him he lies his way out of it. She finds out who Gabriella is and fears her husband will leave her. Juliet begins having visions who accuse and terrorize her. The pinnacle of the visions comes at the end where it is implied she realizes she would be better off without her husband and is ultimately emotionally emancipated.

international title: Juliet of the Spirits
original title: Giulietta degli spiriti
country: Italy, France
year: 1965
genre: fiction
directed by: Federico Fellini
film run: 137'
release date: IT 16/10/1965, FR 19/10/1965, DE 04/11/1965, UK 10/02/1966, SE 16/02/1966, SU 22/02/1966, BE 04/03/1966, DK 03/06/1966, PT 30/11/1966, FI 10/03/1967, HU 18/05/1967, DD 09/04/1971, GR 04/07/2003, ES 31/12/2004, PL 23/07/2007, CH 07/08/2007
screenplay: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
cast: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu
cinematography by: Gianni Di Venanzo
film editing: Ruggero Mastroianni
art director: Giantito Burchiellaro, Luciano Ricceri, Emanuele Taglietti
costumes designer: Piero Gherardi

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