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Bookmark this pageLa Signora senza camelie (1953)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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From Time Out Film Guide
An early Antonioni drama that looks at the sad fate of a manipulated woman, as well as taking a satirical swipe at the commercial end of the Italian film industry. Bosè plays a shopgirl, recently elevated to movie stardom, whose idolising producer husband (Cecchi) puts her into a disastrous production of Joan of Arc and sends her career into a downward spiral. Characteristically, Antonioni is less concerned with plot than with creating fluid set pieces and eloquent framings of his beautiful actress and the surrounding decor. The resulting cocktail is slight on psychology, but invariably stunning to behold.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer: Domenico Forges Davanzati
Cast: Lucia Bosè, Andrea Cecchi, Gino Cervi, Ivan Desny, Alain Cuny full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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