A key film of Antonioni's middle-period Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) finds the Italian master expanding his palette in the realm of traditional narrative cinema by way of his powerhouse direction of an ensemble cast while entrenching his devotion to expressing the emotional makeup of the modern woman. Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) embarks from Rome to set up a fashion-salon in Torino. Shortly after arrival she finds herself caught up in the (melo)dramas of a bourgeoise circle of acquaintances (including the iconic Valentina Cortese) and their attendant attempts at suicide... their class prejudices and the romantic alliances that threaten to transform the social clique into an emotional tar-pit. Le amiche represents the epitome of Antonioni's '50s period and although it lays the groundwork for such '60s breakthroughs as L'avventura and La notte it proves itself no less brilliant. [show more]
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Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin in this poignant drama directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (BLOW-UP)
Classic drama from Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Eleonora Rossi-Drago as a young woman who gets swept into her new clique's tempestuous lifestyle. Clelia (Rossi-Drago) moves into a hotel where she befriends several young women. On her first night there, one of the women, Rosetta (Madeleine Fischer), fatally overdoses after being rejected by her married lover. In shock and in grief, Clelia loses her job, before becoming romantically involved with a man called Carlo (Ettore Manni). However, the other women look down on Carlo because of his poor income and background. A tangled web of deceit and betrayal forms as the women try to keep their own best interests at heart...
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