Le amiche
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Michelangelo Antonioni
Eleonora Rossi-drago
Gabriele Ferzetti
Franco Fabrizi
Valentina Cortese
Yvonne Furneaux
Film Details
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Synopsis
Clelia leaves her job as a couturier in a fashionable Rome dress shop and goes home to Turin to set up a boutique. After moving into a hotel, she makes several new friends, including Rosetta Savoni, a next door neighbor who is unable to get along with her wealthy parents; Lorenzo, a painter who is jealous of his wife Nene's artistic abilities; and Momina de Stefani, a bored sophisticate. Rosetta is having an unhappy love affair with Lorenzo and attempts suicide, even though Nene is willing to tolerate their relationship. Meanwhile, Clelia falls in love with Carlo, an architect's assistant, but discards any consideration of marriage because his meager income would force them to live in poverty. When Lorenzo finally admits that he prefers his work to Rosetta and Nene and that both women bore him, Rosetta kills herself, and Lorenzo eventually returns to his wife. Clelia is fired from her job when she becomes hysterical over the death of her friend, and she leaves for Rome.
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast
Eleonora Rossi-drago
Gabriele Ferzetti
Franco Fabrizi
Valentina Cortese
Yvonne Furneaux
Madeleine Fischer
Anna Maria Pancani
Maria Gambarelli
Ettore Manni
Luciano Volpato
Crew
Giovanni Addessi
Michelangelo Antonioni
Suso Cecchi D'amico
Eraldo Da Roma
Alba De Cespedes
Gianni Di Venanzo
Sorelle Fontana (roma)
Giovanni Fusco
Pietro Notarianni
Gianni Polidori
Libero Tosoni
Armando Trovajoli
Luigi Vanzi
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Trivia
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Location scenes filmed in Turin. Opened in Rome in November 1955. Also known as The Girl Friends.
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Silver Prize at the 1955 Venice Film Festival.
Released in United States 2009
Released in United States September 7, 1955
Released in United States Winter January 4, 1962
Released in United States 2009 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (World Cinema) April 23-May 7, 2009.)
Released in United States Winter January 4, 1962
First shown at Venice Film Festival September 7, 1955.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (World Cinema) April 23-May 7, 2009.
Released in United States September 7, 1955 (First shown at Venice Film Festival September 7, 1955.)
