The Girlfriends

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The Girlfriends

1955,

1h 45m,

Drama

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500+ Ratings

This Italian drama, based on a novella by Cesare Pavese, follows Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago), a young woman from Rome who relocates to Turin to open a fashion boutique. Clelia soon meets and befriends a group of wealthy and cultured women, including the artistic Nene (Valentina Cortese) and the lively Mariella (Anna Maria Pancani). Tensions develop within the group, however, when Nene's fiancé, Lorenzo (Gabriele Ferzetti), becomes interested in one of the other women.

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

May 25, 2015

Antonioni turns a glossy romantic melodrama of modern prosperity inside out to reveal the essence of modernity itself.

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

Jul 1, 2010

3.5/4

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.

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

Jun 18, 2010

5/5

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.

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Jeremy Carr

Vague Visages

Nov 15, 2023

Antonioni further bridges the gap between comparatively conservative melodrama and the groundbreaking narrative and visual abstraction he would soon unleash...

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Oct 8, 2020

3.5/5

Significant observations of alienation in bourgeois tendencies makes revisiting Le Amiche considerably enjoyable.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

Jul 23, 2019

Redeemed by Antonioni's talent for episodes: the dismal picnic, the row in the restaurant, redecorating the apartment; and by his clever cutting and photography for character.

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Clelia

Valentina Cortese

Nene

Gabriele Ferzetti

Lorenzo

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Synopsis

This Italian drama, based on a novella by Cesare Pavese, follows Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago), a young woman from Rome who relocates to Turin to open a fashion boutique. Clelia soon meets and befriends a group of wealthy and cultured women, including the artistic Nene (Valentina Cortese) and the lively Mariella (Anna Maria Pancani). Tensions develop within the group, however, when Nene's fiancé, Lorenzo (Gabriele Ferzetti), becomes interested in one of the other women.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 7, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $63.2K
Runtime: 1h 45m

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