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Vusal I @RT29056439 Jan 2, 2020 Lots of drama. Break of friendship. Loss of love and finding again the same love or just understanding of power of money? I don`t think Lorenzo came back to Nene due to money or famous. It is all about nature of men. Oh Rosetta, pretty girl. Lorenzo between Nene and Rosetta, with Nene mostly talking, is one of the more startling things about the film. Again, a lot of this could be construed as soap-opera stuff: she sleeps with him, he sleeps with her, she's jealous of her, she's spiteful of her, so on and so on. But that one scene, where Nene tells Rosetta off, is powerful because it's not as over the top as one might expect. Ah this film! Anyway, this film was so beautiful, sweet and native. I liked it! It is actually the first day of 2020, new decade, and I decided to watch some good films, then I saw in my library "3 monkeys" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and this Le Amiche. When I saw this film s made by Michelangelo, I just sit in front of monitor to watch it! I read it was made by the magnificent director in his early career years. a See more May 29, 2016 good 'art house' drama See more Apr 28, 2016 Michelangelo Antonioni gave the world this muted melodrama about urban females dealing with boorish men, banal modern life and the occasional suicide attempt. See more Apr 18, 2015 Antonioni's 1950's films adhere more consistently to narrative conventions than his films of the 60's; however, Le Amiche's plot still tends to wander. We are led to identify with Clelia, who is visiting Turin from Rome in order to set up a dressmaker's salon. In Turin, she falls in with a group of women after discovering a failed suicide in an adjacent hotel room. Antonioni then demonstrates, through a variety of social situations, just how bitchy and alienating this social circle is to those within it. Even the woman who attempted suicide readily betrays one of her friends by having an affair with her husband (later to appear as Sandro in L'Avventura, a film that builds on and extends the themes here). But the husband is too self-concerned to be able to see how his actions will affect either of the women (wife and friend) with whom he becomes involved. Antonioni's attention to the various characters fluctuates but none gain too much depth, apart from Clelia who seems sympathetic but ultimately ambivalent toward these new "friends" in Turin. As he would continue to do throughout his career, Antonioni depicts the idle rich as pursuing lives of meaninglessness and cruelty; as a film, Le Amiche represents one more step on the road toward the exciting levels of abstraction he would achieve later on to convey this theme. See more Jul 30, 2011 Lesser Antonioni, but has some lovely sequences that hint at things to come later in his career. See more May 26, 2011 Soapy early Antonioni film doesn't really go anywhere or say very much. See more Read all reviews

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