Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
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He won the 2013 foreign-language Oscar for “The Great Beauty,” one of the best movies of the past decade, and follows this up with his second English-language film, ‘Youth,” an equally stunning film visually that evokes memories of Fellini’s “8 1/2” and “Juliet of the Spirits.”
In the second half of Fellini's career, I find myself disliking his phantasmagoric, color films like Juliet of the Spirits and Satyricon , but drawn to his very last films, the sad and playful Ginger and Fred and Intervista .
The other masterpieces are “ La Strada ,” “ Nights of Cabiria ,” “ La Dolce Vita ,” “ 8 1/2 ” and “ Juliet of the Spirits .”
Federico Fellini ("La Dolce Vita"/"8 1/2"/"Juliet of the Spirits") directs this fictitious semi-autobiography that takes us back to a place in the province of Romagna that tries to emulate Fellini's seaside hometown of Rimini during the Fascist regime (when the entire community seemed childlike, living in an authoritarian regime that did their thinking for them).
The only later film widely admired is “ Amarcord ” (1974).
Giulietta was the last Fellini film to win nearly unanimous critical approval or popular success until Amarcord in 1973, which won the Best Foreign Language Oscar.