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Juliet Of The Spirits (The Criterion Collection) (1965)

Giulietta Masina , Sandra Milo , Federico Fellini  |  Unrated |  DVD
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  • Actors: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, Valeska Gert
  • Directors: Federico Fellini
  • Writers: Federico Fellini, Brunello Rondi, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
  • Producers: Angelo Rizzoli, Clemente Fracassi, Henry Deutschmeister
  • Format: Anamorphic, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: March 12, 2002
  • Run Time: 137 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005V6N6
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,159 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Juliet Of The Spirits (The Criterion Collection)" on IMDb

Special Features

  • New digital transfer
  • New & improved English subtitle translation
  • Familiar Spirits, a 19-minute interview with Fellini by Ian Dallas

Editorial Reviews

Cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo's masterful use of Technicolor transforms Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini's first color feature, into a kaleidoscope of dreams, spirits, and memories. Giulietta Masina plays a betrayed wife whose inability to come to terms with reality leads her along a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the fully restored version of one of Fellini's most dazzling dreams.

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If you wonder how can THAT be, you better watch the film and see it for yourself. "black_magic"  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
We learn about her troubles, her life, her childhood, and her fears. A. Gyurisin  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
The camera visuals and color are stunning. Richard H Miller  |  15 reviewers made a similar statement
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Giulietta is a wealthy, mousey Roman housewife who lives on the margins of her own supposed milieu. Dominated by her beautiful, haughty mother (who can barely tolerate her) and her tall and glamorous sisters, patronized by her rich ding-a-ling friends mostly because of her sympathetic nature (but secretly held in contempt by them for her lack of beauty), Giulietta hides instead in her perfect house with her servants--the only people she can really call her friends--and in her fantasies of her marriage to her jetsetting husband, who seems never to be around. As Giulietta comes to suspect what everyone else has known for years--that he is cheating in her--she simultaneously begins to be visited by spirits who seem to have something to tell her. But as she learns more of her husband's infidelities, and comes to examine the emptiness of her own life, Giulietta's spirits seem less like actual supernatural presences and more like manifestations of a descent into madness.

This is by no means Fellini's "best" film, but it is the one most people think of when they use the adjective "Felliniesque." The fantasy sequences, the striking use of color (particularly orange--this was his first color film, and he really went to town), the decadent Sixties fashions, and the gorgeous stauesque women who seem to have invaded from outer space: they're all here, and many of the sequences in this film have been parodied again and again. Its imitations come for a good reason: the film is utterly absolutely unforgettable. There are sequences in it that are as fine or as memorable as anything Fellini has ever done--particularly the great lawn party sequence, where Giulietta finally breaks down.

There are many things wrong with the film: the script doesn't make a whole lot of sense at times, and the fantasy sequences seem less like something Giulietta would imagine and more like Fellini's usual obsessions (statuesque women, the circus, etc.). And as superbly icy as Caterina Boratto is as Giulietta's mother ("Nice kimono," she sneers at her daughter at the lawn party), did he really have to cast actresses twice as tall as his Giulietta to be her mother and sisters? (Even if we are to accept that most of the movie is from her point of view, it still stretches belief.) What makes it all work so brilliantly in the end, though, is the director's sense of filmic narrative drive (beautifully orchestrated to Nino Rota's famous score) and the performance of the lead actress, Giulietta Masina, who makes it all really matter. Although Masina has not been as praised for this role as much as for her work in CABIRIA and LA STRADA, her work here is every bit as fine, and perhaps better for its greater subtlety. Watch her expression the first time she sees one of her visions after she closes her eyes on the beach--or her astounding range in the lawn party sequence as she segues from forced cheerfulness to utter helplessness to rage, and then finally to despair. (When she finally loses it at her guests and screams at them, it's hard to say what is more memorable: her moment of fury or her terrifyingly lost expression when she realizes they haven't even noticed). Although you really should see this on the big screen (and on as clear a print as possible), this is a film every student of film should see.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Okay transfer of a Great Film April 6, 2000
Format:DVD
First let me say that I'm grateful to have a fairly decent rendition of one of my favorite films. This film epitomizes what came to be known as Felliniesque - a lavish subconscious "theme and varriations" on the subject of marriage, sensuality and guilt. It's also the film that makes the best use of color than any other I've seen. Because I've seen "Juliet" many times in theaters I can say with some authority that the DVD transfer lacks the sharpness and vivid color of the original. In general it's too dark and focus is soft. The biggest problem is the sound which is constantly out of sync by a quarter second (at least on my player). I know Fellini always post dubbed his voices but effects and music were always in sync. There is also a harshness to the sound and at times some distortion. On the plus side, the print had no scratches and with the exception of a few strange clipped transitions (noticible by the soundtrack) seems to be the complete film. I'd have to disagree with another reviewer here who says that much is missing. It's basically the same version remember seeing over the years. I live in the US though and perhaps there was a longer Europeon version. This is one of Fellini's most hallucinatory pictures. The combination of hyper-rich color and costume combined with Nino Rota's curious score make for a completely unique viewing experience.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Transfer! February 16, 2003
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Format:DVD
Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini's first film in color, is one of his most surreal. Giulietta Masina plays Juliet, a meek bourgeois housewife haunted by various "spirits," each with its own psychological agenda. Ultimately the film is life affirming, presenting a longing but repressed sexuality and its crises with childhood memories and psychic yearnings.

This film is very special to me because it was my first encounter with Fellini's cinema. When I found out Criterion has released it, I had to buy it. The transfer is simply unbelievable! The film's restoration makes it look completely new. This is not the Juliet of the Spirits I watched on VHS.

There is only one extra feature accompanying this DVD--"Familiar Spirits," a 20-minute talk between Fellini and Ian Dallas, the Brit who played the magician/psychic in 8 1/2.

A great film in a great Criterion presentation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars was looking for this movie for ever
was going crazy trying to find this movie since i saw it on TMC. so glad i found it......thanks for having it
Published 1 month ago by Francine L. Dalton
4.0 out of 5 stars One more Fellini FREAKSHOW..........
Or is it his first?
My understanding of Fellini's arc is a bit precarious, but what is unmistakable about this "Genius" is the fact that there ARE TWO FELLINIS........ Read more
Published 2 months ago by Raymond L. Llompart
5.0 out of 5 stars juliet of the spirits
I find that criterion always offers the best copies of films. I trust them to respect the original movie and to leave it unaltered while presenting the clearest, best print. Read more
Published 2 months ago by gary
5.0 out of 5 stars A Film About a Woman ...
... but not a "woman's film"! That is, the only real person -- emotionally plausible, flesh and blood, accessible to empathy -- is the focal character Giulietta. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Giordano Bruno
5.0 out of 5 stars Juliet Of The Spirits
Mr. Fellini's first film in colors...it is just superb. Ms. Masina is perfect allowing us to enter into Juliet's most profound existence. Read more
Published 23 months ago by grec
5.0 out of 5 stars Deservedly Belongs in the Pantheon of Fellini's Finest Work
When I first saw this film at age 30, it left me depressed. However, as another Amazon reviewer mentioned, the films of Fellini require one to have "lived a little"--and I have to... Read more
Published on November 8, 2010 by Stephen C. Bird
4.0 out of 5 stars Fellini's Lavish Dance of a Woman's Soul's Liberation
There have been many attempts to explore the layers of shackles that inhibit, cage, strangle the wondrous, unique God-created self that is meant to be fully alive in all its... Read more
Published on September 22, 2010 by Gene Barrette
5.0 out of 5 stars Love to watch it over again
Juliet of the Spirits is just so fun to watch over again. I had a script writing class teacher that liked Casablanca so much he always watched it again to peel another layer out of... Read more
Published on February 9, 2010 by Hollywood Hack
5.0 out of 5 stars Fellini Explodes into Colorful Oneiric Movie.
Director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was undoubtedly a film maker genius!
Since his earlier works "La Strada" (1954) and "La Dolce Vita" (1960) thru "Fellini Satyricon"... Read more
Published on January 9, 2010 by Maximiliano F Yofre
5.0 out of 5 stars Half the reviews here are of an old DVD, not the new 2002 release.
This is a great colorful wonderful film, with a new translation that comes much closer to the Italian language original. Read more
Published on December 27, 2009 by Gaston Musella
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I saw the English language version in the theatre several times. Unlike most "English-dubbed" foreign language films, which are typically pretty lame, Fellini's English version was masterfully done, rich and full, and I agree, much more easily enjoyed by an English-speaker. Since he... Read more
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