LE AMICHE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1955
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: 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 themselves 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.;
• Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Luciano Volpato, Maria Gambarelli, Ettore Manni, Alessandro Fersen, Michelangelo Antonioni, Cesare Pavese, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Alba De Cespedes, Giovanni Addessi, Gianni Di Venanzo, Eraldo Da Roma, Giovanni Fusco, Giulio Canavero, Emilio Rosa, Ennio Sensi, Gianni Polidori
• Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: Titanus S.p.A., Trionfalcine, Intramovies s.r.l., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie