
Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her mother, overshadow her with their beauty. She is spiritual, superstitious, and naive. Soon after she visits a psychic seer who tells her that she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy, she meets her eccentric, sexy neighbour Suzy, who appears to be a high-class prostitute and encourages Juliet into sexual acts which make her guilty and nervous. On a rare night that sees her husband at hom... (Full plot summary below)
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Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her mother, overshadow her with their beauty. She is spiritual, superstitious, and naive. Soon after she visits a psychic seer who tells her that she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy, she meets her eccentric, sexy neighbour Suzy, who appears to be a high-class prostitute and encourages Juliet into sexual acts which make her guilty and nervous. On a rare night that sees her husband at home, she awakens to hear him talking to another woman on the phone. He calls out the name "Gabriella" in his sleep, then lies when she she questions him, but she finds out who Gabriella is and fears her husband will leave her. Then she starts having visions who accuse and terrorize her. The pinnacle of the visions comes at the end where it is implied she realizes she would be better off without her husband and is ultimately emotionally emancipated.
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| VarietyVariety StaffDirector Federico Fellini has put together an imperial-sized fantasy of a physical opulence to make the old Vincente Minnelli Metro musicals look like army training films. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittMasina gives one of her most expressive performances. |
| New Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufSometimes the cinema is just heavenly, and this is one of those times. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasRemains a timeless, major work of a master. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzVisually splendid piece of eye candy that hides behind its gaudy exteriors an emptiness and lack of vision. |
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherFor seasoned Fellini-ites...comfortable with the carnivalesque atmosphere, non-narrative digressions and screechy women with overdone make-up, this is one of [Fellini's] best. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenInvites you to contemplate the symbolic vibration of every hue in its teeming, overcrowded canvas. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA mad, resplendent peacock of a film, a cinematographic riot of color and sensuality that evokes its era -- the swinging mid-'60s -- as much as any movie made during those giddy years. |
| Time OutTony RaynsThe overall charm just about carries the glibness of the psychological payoff, and the way that different veins of imagery interlock gives the film a cogency that later Fellini has woefully lacked. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldAbove all, the film is just wonderfully ... well, Fellini-esque. It looks like nothing the cinema has seen since then. |