Fellini's Juliet of the Sprits is my favorite film of his although I'm definitely in the minority on this. It's Fellini's greatest film b/c it finds him at his most experimental but least abstruse. It's surreal but the striking visuals are simply Juliet's inner world externalized and with that you get a interesting depiction of the inner world of a trapped woman. Juliet is not physically trapped but psychologically - but the film documents her escape to freedom.

There are lots of colorful (literally as this was Fellini's first color film and it shows visually) characters and inventively choreographed scenes. The cast dances across the screen, literally and figuratively and each scene seems to be caused by the drinking of some ambrosia-like liquid by Juliet. The film is sad but also hopeful and full of wonderment about a life that can be tragic and uncontrollable. Yes, this is definitely my favorite but all of Fellini's other works are incredible too.

Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) analyzes the identity crisis of identity of a middle-aged Italian housewife, almost a female counterpart to Guido, in Fellini's first color feature film. One of the first postwar Italian films about women's social status in Italian culture, it is structured after the story line of 8½. Giulietta's (Giulietta Masina) quest for psychic freedom is impeded by both her philandering husband and the critical, reprimanding women (her mother and sisters) who surround her. Her gift for seeing spirits summons a passel of them, all ghosts from her past with whom she must reconcile. Source

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