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Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Featuring: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Luciano Volpato, Maria Gambarelli, Ettore Manni
This major early achievement by Michelangelo Antonioni bears the first signs of the cinema-changing style for which he would soon be world-famous. Le amiche (The Girlfriends) is a brilliantly observed, fragmentary depiction of modern bourgeois life, conveyed from the perspective of five Turinese women. As four of the friends try to make sense of the suicide attempt of the fifth, they find themselves examining their own troubled romantic lives. With suggestions of the theme of modern alienation and the fastidious visual abstraction that would define his later masterpieces such as L’avventura, L’eclisse, and Red Desert, Antonioni’s film is a devastating take on doomed love and fraught friendship.
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Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
Italian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Insert
- New conversation with scholars David Forgacs and Karen Pinkus on the film
- New interview with scholar Eugenia Paulicelli on the importance of fashion in Antonioni
- Insert featuring an essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo
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Release Credits
Producer: Kate Elmore
Artwork: Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
Le amiche
Le amiche is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and the right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Supervised by film historian Carlo Di Carlo in 2008, this 2K restoration was undertaken by L’Immagine Ritrovata, with funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation, from the original 35mm original camera negative.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at L’Immagine Ritrovata from a 35mm optical soundtrack positive printed from the original soundtrack negative.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at L’Immagine Ritrovata from a 35mm optical soundtrack positive printed from the original soundtrack negative.