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As a quick side note, for anyone wanting to go “complete” on Fellini’s director credits, the special features on this disc include the short film he made for a horror anthology called Spirits of the Dead as well as a hard to find hour long special he shot for NBC titled Fellni: A Director’s Notebook. I just wanted to call out the cool work Criterion did in finding these two gems so that completionist don’t have to separately hunt them down.Welcome to the official Film/Art Gallery collection of original Juliet of the Spirits vintage movie posters.
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I am going to have a difficult time ranking this as it’s a very unique film, but I really loved it and I know it will stay with me for a long time. He exposed some uncomfortable details of his own marriage to Giulietta Masina to tell an honest story. It is wholly possibly this film is self-indulgent, but I think in this case Director Fellini got it right.
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The journey to get here is layered with a woman is deeply connected to her dreams and spirituality, and her reliance on these forces is on full visual display. Like an understated butterfly, she ends coming quietly out of her cocoon with a steely reserve to take care of herself.īut this is not a simple story. At the core, stripped of all color and beautiful costumes and dream sequences and larger than life characters, Juliet of the Spirits is a story of a woman who is going through the stages of grief that would be natural of someone who deeply loved and admired their partner and discovered it was no longer mutual. This to me runs a very close parallel to Fellini. The second is you get to then listen to his fully loaded albums and sit in the mastery he has at composing music that transports his listeners to whatever world he wants them in. The first is you get to see Bon Iver as a writer of simple yet beautiful folks songs. Have you ever heard his acoustic set with no supporting effects or music magic? Two things happen. I am reminded of the music of Bon Iver watching this movie. It is also through this lens that I think Juliet of the Spirits deserves to be revisited apart from the common critique that it’s a self indulgent film from Director and Writer Fellini. It is a soul crushing reality to realize that your spouse does not see you in the same light as they used to and as you still currently do for them. These two contrasting female leads are woven together and the line between Giulietta’s friends, dreams, memories and future self become blurred as she sinks into a deeper sadness. Her neighbor, Suzy, is a sexually liberated, strong-willed, opinionated force who loves her friends and family deeply with a raw passion and does what she wants without regret. In tandem, she has a neighbor move in that represents her very opposite. He is also having an affair on his wife, and she moves from uneasy feeling to suspicion to confirmation throughout the movie. He is well beloved by the artistic community and has a silver tongue. In the film, our heroine Giulietta is married to a dynamic man. It seems that, if 8 ½ was Fellini’s announcement to the world that he was aware of his shortcomings and charging forward as a creative force, then he certainly lived up to the promise with his next film Juliet of the Spirits.īoth his, and his wife’s lives were laid bare for the world to dissect as he used her very intimate and personal insecurities to weave a story of a woman stuck in a marriage that was not what she wanted it to be.