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Release year: 1955

Storyline

A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.

Top credits

Directors

Michelangelo Antonioni

Writers

Cast

Eleonora Rossi Drago — Clelia
Gabriele Ferzetti — Lorenzo
Franco Fabrizi — L'architetto Cesare Pedon
Valentina Cortese — Nene

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Did you know

• The literal translation of Cesare Pavese's novella "Tra donne sole" is either "Among Women Only" or "Among Lonely Women."

• With this film, Michelangelo Antonioni started experimenting with his trademark stylistic touches, namely a slightly skewed narrative structure related through a series of seemingly disconnected events. In L'Avventura (1960) in particular, he displayed his theme of the lack of emotional connection between the protagonists and the emptiness within them. Here, he started using long, carefully framed, unbroken takes, allowing him to explore each character and their own personal journey. The isolation of love - or lack of it - is also a key component that is explored here, as indeed is the quality of forgiveness, as represented by Nene, the cuckolded wife played by Valentina Cortese.

• It is generally agreed that, in this film, Michelangelo Antonioni settled on the themes that would populate all his later films. These would come noticeably to the fore five years later in L'Avventura (1960), probably the definitive Antonioni film.