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JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

STAFF
directed by Federico Fellini
idea by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinell
music by Nino Rota
 
STARRING
Giulietta Giulietta Masina
Giorgio Mario Pisu
Giulietta's mother Caterina Boratto
Valentina Valentina Cortese
Adele Luisa Della Noce
Susy, Iris Sandra Milo
Sylva Sylvia Koscina
 
Italian original title Giulietta Degli Spiriti
 
Produced in 1965
OPENING


Giulietta meets two sorts of the spirits (Iris and Susy) in this story. I suppose Fellini wanted to describe fear and happiness inside ourselves through these two spirits. Giulietta is an ordinary woman who has loneliness, emptiness, jealousy, and an inferiority complex of her beauty compare to her mother and sisters. Her husband has another woman, this causes Giulietta despair. But she ends up to overcome her inside fear, releases herself, and faces straight to her inside happiness. The magnificent point of this movie is rich visuality, brilliant full of colored objects even though this was the Fellini's first color movie. At least as for this point, it's very much worth to check out.