Identification of a Woman (1982)
(Identificazione di una donna)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 128m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Synopsis:
A self-absorbed film director looks for a woman to be the focus of his next film, a search which spills over into his personal life and his affairs with a socialite and an actress.
Review:
Life imitates art, and to some extent art imitates art, as Antonioni gives us another sketch of couples straining towards intimacy, with shots on staircases and through windows, and evocative use of locations, in this case a country road at night swathed in fog. At one point it looks as though we are heading into Noir territory, with the hero being dealt veiled threats by a stranger in a cafe, and being staked out and followed by a man in a car; all of which reinforces the impression of reliving Buñuel's last work, Cet obscur objet du désir, with its terrorist subplot and twin beauties. The present film, though, is less entertaining, certainly less playful, and one tires of yet another ineffectual Antonioni hero struggling with the concept of empathy, let alone love.
(Identificazione di una donna)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 128m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Synopsis:
A self-absorbed film director looks for a woman to be the focus of his next film, a search which spills over into his personal life and his affairs with a socialite and an actress.
Review:
Life imitates art, and to some extent art imitates art, as Antonioni gives us another sketch of couples straining towards intimacy, with shots on staircases and through windows, and evocative use of locations, in this case a country road at night swathed in fog. At one point it looks as though we are heading into Noir territory, with the hero being dealt veiled threats by a stranger in a cafe, and being staked out and followed by a man in a car; all of which reinforces the impression of reliving Buñuel's last work, Cet obscur objet du désir, with its terrorist subplot and twin beauties. The present film, though, is less entertaining, certainly less playful, and one tires of yet another ineffectual Antonioni hero struggling with the concept of empathy, let alone love.
(Identificazione di una donna)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 128m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Synopsis:
A self-absorbed film director looks for a woman to be the focus of his next film, a search which spills over into his personal life and his affairs with a socialite and an actress.
Review:
Life imitates art, and to some extent art imitates art, as Antonioni gives us another sketch of couples straining towards intimacy, with shots on staircases and through windows, and evocative use of locations, in this case a country road at night swathed in fog. At one point it looks as though we are heading into Noir territory, with the hero being dealt veiled threats by a stranger in a cafe, and being staked out and followed by a man in a car; all of which reinforces the impression of reliving Buñuel's last work, Cet obscur objet du désir, with its terrorist subplot and twin beauties. The present film, though, is less entertaining, certainly less playful, and one tires of yet another ineffectual Antonioni hero struggling with the concept of empathy, let alone love.