Michelangelo Antonioni's pre-international breakthrough drama is as good as anything he's done, a flawlessly acted and directed story of complex relationships -- that include his 'career' themes before the existential funk set in. It's one of the best-blocked dramatic films ever... the direction is masterful. Le amiche Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 817 1955 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 106 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 7, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Madeleine Fischer, Yvonne Furneaux, Anna Maria Pancani, Luciano Volpato, Maria Gambarelli, Ettore Manni. Cinematography Gianni De Venanzo Film Editor Eraldo Da Roma Original Music Giovanni Fusco Written by Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alba de Cespedes from a book by Cesare Pavese Produced by Giovanni Addessi Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
It's time to stop being so intimidated by Michelangelo Antonioni. His epics of existential alienation La notte, L'eclisse and...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
It's time to stop being so intimidated by Michelangelo Antonioni. His epics of existential alienation La notte, L'eclisse and...
- 6/4/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Italian master's challenging and difficult L'Avventura was booed at its premiere in Cannes. But nowadays the director gets something far more hurtful: indifference
This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. As well as everything else, he gave us one of the founding myths of postwar cinema: The Booing of L'Avventura. For film historians, it's as pretty much important as the audience riots at the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
At the Cannes film festival on 15 May 1960, Antonioni presented his L'Avventura, a challenging and difficult film and a decisive break from his earlier work, replete with languorous spaces and silences. This was movie-modernism's difficult birth. The film was jeered so ferociously, so deafeningly, that poor Antonioni and his beautiful star Monica Vitti burst into tears where they sat. There...
This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. As well as everything else, he gave us one of the founding myths of postwar cinema: The Booing of L'Avventura. For film historians, it's as pretty much important as the audience riots at the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
At the Cannes film festival on 15 May 1960, Antonioni presented his L'Avventura, a challenging and difficult film and a decisive break from his earlier work, replete with languorous spaces and silences. This was movie-modernism's difficult birth. The film was jeered so ferociously, so deafeningly, that poor Antonioni and his beautiful star Monica Vitti burst into tears where they sat. There...
- 9/27/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) proved a transitory work in Michelangelo Antonioni’s long career as a filmmaker. It not only signalled new intentions and experiments in form, but the characters began to emerge into what would become the iconic existential figure.
Although not as openly modernist as the later films from which he cultivated an international reputation and staked his claim in history, it’s a very modern and outstanding work. Especially given Antonioni’s unusual place in Italian cinema.
It should also be noted Le Amiche derives from a literary source; a novella by Cesare Parvese. Only three of Antonioni’s films came from such origins. There’s a lot to enjoy in Le Amiche, even if the narrative isn’t as beguiling as some of the later, more famous pictures.
Eleonora Rossi-Drago plays Clelia, a Roman living in Turin who is accidentally drawn into the lives of Signora...
Although not as openly modernist as the later films from which he cultivated an international reputation and staked his claim in history, it’s a very modern and outstanding work. Especially given Antonioni’s unusual place in Italian cinema.
It should also be noted Le Amiche derives from a literary source; a novella by Cesare Parvese. Only three of Antonioni’s films came from such origins. There’s a lot to enjoy in Le Amiche, even if the narrative isn’t as beguiling as some of the later, more famous pictures.
Eleonora Rossi-Drago plays Clelia, a Roman living in Turin who is accidentally drawn into the lives of Signora...
- 3/19/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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