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USA 1955

Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin. She moves into a hotel and makes several new friends, but is soon drawn into their extremely unpleasant lives. Clelia enters a doomed relationship with a poor architect's assistant (Ettore Manni), sees her new best friend Rosetta (Madeleine Fischer) commit suicide after being jilted by her married lover (Gabriele Ferzetti), and is eventually fired from her new job when her hysteria over Rosetta's death interferes with her work. Clelia finally goes back to Rome, and viewers will not blame her a bit. Le Amiche, based on a 1949 article published in La Bella Estate ("Tre Donne Sole" by Cesare Pavese), is perhaps Michelangelo Antonioni's first great film. Juggling 10 characters with great aplomb, Antonioni and co-screenwriters Suso Cecchi D'Amico and Alba De Cespedes have created a rich, interlocking narrative which manages to rise above mere melodrama through careful attention to the ebb and flow of interpersonal relationships and a keen sense of balance. The fine supporting cast includes Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, and Franco Fabrizi.

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Theatrical Release: September 7th, 1955 - Italy

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Runtime	1:38:54
Video	1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.45 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
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Audio	Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles	English, None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Image Entertainment Aspect Ratio: Original aspect Ratio 1.33:1 Edition Details: • none DVD Release Date: August 7th, 2001 Snapper Case Chapters: 12

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This DVD shows some good contrast, but also softness at times. Of the recent non-Criterion Antonioni's we have reviewed I would suspect that this has the best image quality. Removable subtitles are a bonus considering La Notte and Il Grido. A very strong Antonioni effort which I highly doubt will be coming out in a superior edition anytime soon. It is the type of Image Entertainment disc that will eventually go out of print and fetch big dollars on EBay like Red Desert. No extras again, but I am glad I have my copy. out of

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That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a Director by Michelangelo Antonioni	Antonioni, Or, the Surface of the World by Seymour Chatman	My Time With Antonioni: The Diary of an Extraordinary Experience by Wim Wenders, Michael Hofmann	Antonioni: The Poet of Images by William Arrowsmith, Ted Perry	Antonioni by Sam Rohdie	The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge Film Classics) by Peter Brunette, Ray Carney	Michelangelo Antonioni by Seymour Chatman, Paul Duncan	L'Avventura (B.F.I. Film Classics) by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

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