#817: ANTONIONI, Michelangelo: Le Amiche (1955)
ANTONIONI, Michelangelo (Italy)
Le Amiche [1955]
Spine #817
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
This major early achievement by Michelangelo Antonioni bears the first signs of the cinema-changing style for which he would soon be world-famous. Le amiche is a brilliantly observed, fragmentary depiction of modern bourgeois life, conveyed from the perspective of five Turinese women, four of whom are trying to make sense of the fifth's suicide attempt — and finding themelves examining their own troubled romantic lives in the process. With suggestions of the theme of modern alienation and the fastidious visual abstraction that would define such later masterpieces of his as L'avventura, L'eclisse, and Red Desert, Antonioni's film is a devastating take on doomed love and fraught friendship.
104 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
in Italian
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Director/Writers
Screenplay by Suso Cecchi D’Amico and Michelangelo Antonioni.
With the collaboration of Alba De Cespedes.
Antonioni was 43 when he directed Le Amiche.
Other Antonioni films in the Collection:
#98: L'Avventura (1960)
#678: La Notte (1961)
#278: L'Eclisse (1962)
#522: Red Desert (1964)
#865: Blow-Up (1966)
#585: Identification Of A Woman (1982)
The Film
Other Antonioni films in the Collection:
#98: L'Avventura (1960)
#678: La Notte (1961)
#278: L'Eclisse (1962)
#522: Red Desert (1964)
#865: Blow-Up (1966)
#585: Identification Of A Woman (1982)
The Film
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The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
With scholars David Forgacs and Karen Pinkus on the film’s themes.
Interview
With scholar Eugenia Paulicelli on the importance of fashion in Antonioni’s work.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
With scholars David Forgacs and Karen Pinkus on the film’s themes.
Interview
With scholar Eugenia Paulicelli on the importance of fashion in Antonioni’s work.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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