Antonioni's ability to use the screen's illusion of depth or the way he lends an eloquence to the space between characters is a marvel. How he has these people stand is so much more expressive than anything they say.
Le Amiche
1955 · 1h 44m · NOT RATED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Overview
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
Director and cast
- Michelangelo Antonioni Director
- Eleonora Rossi Drago as Clelia
- Gabriele Ferzetti as Lorenzo
- Franco Fabrizi as Cesare Pedoni, the architect
- Valentina Cortese as Nene
- Yvonne Furneaux as Momina De Stefani
- Madeleine Fischer as Rosetta Savoni
- Anna Maria Pancani as Mariella
- Luciano Volpato as Tony
- Maria Gambarelli as Clelia's employer
- Ettore Manni as Carlo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The expressive elegance of Antonioni's camera movements -- the way he glides around a scene, composing and recomposing the human figures within it to suggest psychological patterns and unacknowledged erotic connections -- still has the power to amaze.
Long before the he put Monica Vitti through the existentialist-ennui wringer, Michelangelo Antonioni gave the world this muted melodrama about urban females dealing with boorish men, banal modern life and the occasional suicide attempt.
An unexpected treasure.
Though seldom seen now, Antonioni's fourth feature is one of his greatest films, in which diverse plot strands, character psychology, and a masterful control of the camera are perfectly fused.
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