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No big drama, no intense car chase, no sex-laden imagery. Yet the film tugs. It has a compelling draw. It has all the simplicity of making a living, raising kids, living life. And then there are moments which confront complexity, where dreams and desires crash against life's harshness. Letting go an easy but corrupt deal which could pay for the daughter's hearing aid, being able to break into a song after the kids have witnessed their long-cherished plan choke on itself. The camera captures some poetry – of blue doors, sweeping vistas with ostriches, and landscapes which come alive from a kid's loving scrawl to full bloom. Did you know the pleasure of being on a breezy rooftop with your wife while the kids watch TV late in the evening? For such and many other life's precious moments, this film is a must watch.

Kwaidan is hard to write about. Words and language don't have the brevity and impact as the film media, specially the way it is experienced in Kwaidan. I can list a lot of adjectives about how glorious the movie is, but its beauty is in its felt experience, which will be different for different people. Its horror for some and spiritual for others. Its motivating and frightening, its beautiful and stark, its achingly slow and some moments are threateningly fast. The colors are magical. The expressions of the actors is other-worldly. The silence in the movie gets to be really loud sometimes. There is poetry in the script, with themes of love, faith, betrayal, kept and broken promises, beauty, honor, devotion to art, and much more. It's a must watch!

Like most Fellini movies, Juliet of the Spirits is also a visual delight. There is a blast of colors and craziness on the screen, and its all very tasteful. In all this extravagance is Juliet, with her less than ordinary beauty but extraordinary visualization. She is caught between her love for her husband and his affair with someone else. She attends exotic clairvoyant parties and even more exotic sexual temptation parties. The magic of the movie is how Fellini brings to life Juliet's struggle with conflicts within her. Giulietta Masina is flawless in her role of the depicting the torn wife – with her trembling smile and questioning eyes. Sandra Milo, her polar opposite as the indulging temptress, is deliciously competent as well.