Le Amiche (1955) on Netflix
Clelia returns to Turin to open a branch of the Roman fashion salon she works for. When Rosetta, in the next apartment, attempts suicide, Clelia is drawn into her circle of friends.
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Plot summary
Clelia returns from Rome to Turin, the city where she grew up poor, to oversee the opening of a new branch of the Roman salon that employs her. In the apartment next door, a young woman named Rosetta has tried to take her own life, and as Rosetta recovers Clelia is drawn into her circle of well-off Turin friends: the flirtatious Mariella, Momina, who lives apart from her husband, and Nene, a ceramics artist who shares her life with the painter Lorenzo. Construction of the salon is behind schedule, and Clelia rebukes Cesare, the architect responsible, who is having an affair with Momina. She also meets his assistant Carlo, and feels drawn to him, though the social distance between his working-class background and her own position divides them.
Cast
- Anna Maria Pancanias Mariella
- Luciano Volpatoas Tony
- Marcella Ferri
- Tiziano Cortinias Dissatisfied Customer of the Pub (uncredited)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Le Amiche (1955)
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SPOILER
In adapting Cesare Pavese's novella, Michelangelo Antonioni changed the motive for Rosetta's suicide: the book ascribes it to a luckless lesbian affair with Momina, while the film explains it by her ill-fated affair with Lorenzo, and the narrative viewpoint shifts from Clelia's alone to multiple viewpoints.
