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DVD

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Le amiche

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special edition.

Languages

In Italian, with English subtitles.

Performers

Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Luciano Volpato, Maria Gambarelli, Ettore Manni.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (104 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This fragmentary depiction of modern bourgeois life is conveyed from the perspective of five Turinese women, four of whom are trying to make sense of the fifth's suicide attempt--and finding themselves examining their own troubled romantic lives in the process.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new conversation with scholars David Forgacs and Karen Pinkus on the film's themes ; new interview with scholar Eugenia Paulicelli on the importance of fashion in Antonioni's work ; new English subtitle translation.

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