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Identification of a Woman

1982 · 2h 8m · NOT RATED Drama, Romance
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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Overview

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.

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All reviews
62%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The most openly erotic of Antonioni's features, and visually one of the most beautiful.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

A refreshing irony prevents the hardened art house pundit from wallowing in nostalgia and the metaphysics of 'portentous messages'.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten

Identification of a Woman is an excrutiatingly empty work. It's also beautiful and sad -- virtually a parody of the director's great L'Avventura and some of his other earlier films.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

There's a very good reason this moody, atmospheric effort was never released in the United States until now -- it isn't very good.

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

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