Le Amiche
Le Amiche English The Girlfriends is a 1955 Italian blackandwhite drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, and Valentina Cortese. Adapted from Cesare Paveses 1949 novel Tra donne sole, the film is about a young woman who returns to her native Turin to set up a new fashion salon and becomes involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy women friends. The film was shot on location in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. Le Amiche received the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award in 1955, and the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon Award for Best Director Michelangelo Antonioni and Best Supporting Actress Valentina Cortese.
The script for Le Amiche is adapted from a novel by Cesare Pavese. As such, it is one of the few adaptations Antonioni directed, the others being Blowup based on a short story by Julio Cortzar, The Mystery of Oberwald adapted from Jean Cocteaus play LAigle deux ttes, which Cocteau had previously adapted to film and his final feature, Beyond the Clouds, based on a book of his own short stories. Antonioni wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Suso Cecchi dAmico and Alba De Cespedes.The film was shot on location in Turin through the Trionfalcine production company and distributed in Italy through Titanus. ........
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