183 pages plus 16 pages of stills from the film. Review is based on the Orion Press, New York hardcover first edition, published in 1965. The film starred the incomparable Giulietta Masina (Fellini conceived the film "around Giulietta and for Giulietta"), Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese and Sylva Koscina. Readers of the text published here will be enlightened by the filmmaking process, illustrating as it does the changes Fellini made between original screenplay and final, finished work of art. The screenplay was written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi and based on an original story by Fellini and Pinelli. The film is a big dream, and color is part of the language of dreams." adds a certain restlessness, certain oblique atmospheres. And for the ears, another enchanting Nino Rota music score in which the composer uses a jazz main theme played with electronic instruments, and a mixture of singing voices, waltzing passages, sound effects and even some pseudo-Asian music to enhance Fellini's colorful characters.įellini: "I have made Giulietta in color because it is a story to which color. The photography, production design and costuming makes this Fellini film a stunning feast for the eye. It featured typical Fellini mannerisms: "that cautious, childishly excited way of his of moving through a world of dreams, splendidly illuminated by the photography of Gianni Di Venanzo (who was one of the great directors of photography of Italian cinema), in whose hands colors shine like glossy covers, acute as those of a trichromatic print." A film requiring viewer to delve into woman's psyche via a rash of symbolism counterbalanced with rich visual delights."Īlthough not a huge hit on release and considered not one of his best films, but to devout FF fans, it was a rewarding experience and considered his most "personal" film. "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965) was Fellini's first full-length color film and is a long, complex film, probably best summed up by Leonard Maltin as "Surrealistic fantasy triggered by wife's fears that her well-to-do husband is cheating on her. Multiple awards including Academy Awards for "La Strada"/ "Nights of Cabiria"/ "Federico Fellini's 8 1/2" and "Amarcord" plus a Special AA honoring the body of his work., making him, alongside Ingmar Bergman, as the most acclaimed European filmmakers of all time. Film lovers throughout the world know Fellini's visionary works through some of the most important and successful films made in Italy from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. Multiple awards including Academy Awards for "La Strada"/ "Nights of Cabiria"/ "Federico Fellini's 8 1/2" and "Amarcord" plus a Special AA honoring the body of The fabulous world of Federico Fellini is a glorious mixture of fantasy and reality, of joy and pathos above all, it is marked by a tremendous, uninhibited vitality. The fabulous world of Federico Fellini is a glorious mixture of fantasy and reality, of joy and pathos above all, it is marked by a tremendous, uninhibited vitality.
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