Identificazione di una donna (Identification of a Woman) (1982)
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62% of critics liked it
(13 reviews) -
60% of users liked it
(464 ratings)
A divorced middle-aged Italian film director (Tomas Millian) is seeking meaning and love in both his life and his film. He becomes involved with an aristocratic woman, but trouble ensues when he begins to receive anonymous threats demanding that he abandon the relationship. When the woman… More A divorced middle-aged Italian film director (Tomas Millian) is seeking meaning and love in both his life and his film. He becomes involved with an aristocratic woman, but trouble ensues when he begins to receive anonymous threats demanding that he abandon the relationship. When the woman mysteriously disappears, the director begins seeing an actress who works in experimental plays. She too leaves after telling him that she is carrying another man's child. In his quest for meaning, all the director manages to find is meaningless sex and lots of metaphors for isolation and abandonment: fog, open doors, empty landscapes. ~ John Voorhees, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Written By
- Gérard Brach, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 21, 1982 Wide
- Studio
- Criterion Collection
Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The most openly erotic of Antonioni's features, and visually one of the most beautiful.
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
A refreshing irony prevents the hardened art house pundit from wallowing in nostalgia and the metaphysics of 'portentous messages'.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Identification of a Woman is an excrutiatingly empty work. It's also beautiful and sad -- virtually a parody of the director's great L'Avventura and some of his other earlier films.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
There's a very good reason this moody, atmospheric effort was never released in the United States until now -- it isn't very good.
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Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies Online
... a film filled with mysteries that are never resolved and images that are simultaneously lonely and lovely.
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Cast
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Tomas Milian
as Niccolo
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Daniela Silverio
as Mavi
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Christine Boisson
as Ida
- Lara Wendel
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Veronica Lazar
as Carla
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Marcel Bozzuffi
as Mario
- Stefania D'Amario
- Luisa Della Noce
- Pier Francesco Aiello
- Paola Dominguín
- Itaco Nardulli
- Sergio Tardioli
- Giampaolo Saccarola
