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JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) lets her mind wander off to a far-out Freudian three-ring circus conjured up by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), whose effects are breathtaking to behold...
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) lets her mind wander off to a far-out Freudian three-ring circus conjured up by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½ whose effects are breathtaking to behold...
CINEMA JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Marital infidelity activates the subconscious of Actress Giulietta Masina in this psychic three-ring circus staged with unbuttoned gusto by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), the Barnum of the avantgarde...
...characters in this film maintain two personalities: on-stage and off-stage. While Checco may be "Top Banana" under the lights, he's a silly fruitcake at home. Variety Lights does not get encumbered by moral judgements, but in later works the on-stage component changes into phoniness. Fellini does not permit his urbane heroes to relieve their egos by singing and dancing before an audience; rather, they must release their tensions destructively among their friends...
Variety Lights shows us Fellini in 1949, an extremely talented bumpkin at last provided with his own camera and crew. We see how he clings to the virtues of provincial life on the one hand, and how he is seduced by the quick and elegant atmosphere of Rome on the other. Liliana opts for the city, as Fellini did, but not without a certain sadness. For in the closing sequence, as she boards the express for Milan and then Paris, she wistfully eyes Checco and his company on the next track, en route to the provinces and vaudeville. One suspects...