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Le Amiche/The Girlfriends (1955)
A DEVASTATING TAKE ON THE LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP OF FOUR MODERN WOMEN
Four women friends try to make sense of the suicide attempt by a fifth. Perhaps Michelangelo Antonioni’s greatest early work before he shook the world with the trilogy begun with L’Avventura. It bears the first signs of the director’s cinema-changing style. As the friends try to make sense of their world, they find themselves examining their own troubled romantic lives. A brilliantly observed depiction of Italian modern bourgeois life.
Le Amiche was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata. Restoration funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation. Co-presented with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Sydney.
To read Jane Mills detailed notes on the film, click here.
Rating
CTC
Cast
Eleonaro Rossi Draqgo, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Yvonne Furneaux, Valentina Cortese
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
