Le Amiche

Le Amiche (The Girlfriends in English) is a 1955 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is adapted from Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella Tra donne sole and centers on Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago), who leaves Rome to work at a boutique in Torino.

Production

The script for Le Amiche is adapted from a novella 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 Cortázar), The Mystery of Oberwald (adapted from Jean Cocteau's play L'Aigle à deux têtes, 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 d'Amico and Alba De Cespedes.

The film was shot on location in Turin through the Trionfalcine production company and distributed in Italy through Titanus.

External links

• Le Amiche at the Internet Movie Database
• Review at the New York Times