Fellini lore has it that the master made "Juliet of the Spirits" as a gift for his wife. Like many husbands, he gave her the gift he really wanted for himself. The movie, starring a sad-eyed Giulietta Masina who fears her husband is cheating, suggests she'd be happier if she were more like her neighbor, a buxom temptress who entertains men in a tree house.

Fellini believed the movie turned the tables on his two previous films, "La Dolce Vita" and "Fellini 81/2," which were autobiographical laments about his own problems. This one, he felt, was about Giulietta. Watching it, I was reminded of ...

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