Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Giulietta Masina: Giulietta Boldrini

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• Giulietta Boldrini : I don't care about the clemency you offer me but the salvation of my soul.

• Giorgio : Jose owns one of the biggest bull farms. Sometimes at night this madman puts on his own bullfight.

  Giulietta Boldrini : What courage! Isn't it dangerous?

  Giorgio's friend : No, signora, it's poetry. Poetry is never dangerous. My best friends are toreadors. They compose music, write verse, and abhor blood.

• Valentina : Enchanting! Such an intoxicating perfume! Look at the dew. This is dew, isn't it? Such purity. My heart aches, it's all so beautiful. I want to roll around naked in it.

  Giulietta Boldrini : Why don't you?

  Valentina : I can't. We've become so complicated, so uncivilized.

• Giulietta Boldrini : "Get revenge." "Forgive." Who should I believe? "Make yourself beautiful." "Life is a sacrifice." "Be more feminine. We'll teach you." My life if full of people talking, talking! Go away! Get out, all of you!

• Giorgio's friend : Water. When I need something absolutely pure, something sincere, I always ask for water. Simple things are so important in life. Things that don't conceal something else. Water is like a sincere glance that conceals nothing. Don't be afraid of the truth. The truth sets us free. After all, who cares about other people's opinions? In my country there's a saying : "I am my own roof, window and hearth. I feed upon my words and drink from my thoughts. Therefore I am happy."

  Giulietta Boldrini : Are you real, yes or no? And what advice can you give me? Tell me, what should I do?

  Giorgio's friend : I wouldn't know. I just want you to live happily.

• Bhisma : Giulietta, do you know the Kama Sutra? Sexual intercourse is a conflict. To be happy, you must behave as if in combat. The place to be fought over is the body.

  Giulietta Boldrini : The body?

  Bhisma : And within the body, the shoulders and between the breasts.

• Bhisma : Did you buy those stockings?

  Giulietta Boldrini : No. What stockings?

  Bhisma : The black fishnets. Women want to be treated like angels, but they don't do their job -...

  Giulietta Boldrini : Is love a "job"?

  Bhisma : I didn't say "job." I said "the art of love."

  Giulietta Boldrini : I got it right. You said "job." Whoring - some advice!

• Giorgio (Giulietta's husband) : Look what your friend Val brought you.

  Giulietta Boldrini : Thanks. What is it?

  Valentina : Its a charm against spirits! You must hang it here.

• Valentina : He's a fabulous clairvoyant. A man-woman with the secrets of both sexes! An oracle. He can change your life, reveal all.

  Giulietta Boldrini : He's an Indian?

  Valentina : Indian, Tibetan -- who cares? Bhisma belongs to the world

• Giulietta Boldrini : Here's what's happening. It's as if everything's been lost since last night. I'm afraid my husband has another woman.

  Bhisma : Learn to better please your husband, Giulietta.