Identificazione di una donna
Directed by:
Michelangelo AntonioniCinematography:
Carlo Di PalmaCast:
Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Veronica Lazar, Lara Wendel, Luisa Della Noce, Stefania D'Amario, Marcel Bozzuffi, Sergio Tardioli (more)VOD (2)
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Michelangelo Antonioni's rarely seen and unjustly underrated masterwork - perhaps due to its renowned sexual explicitness. Identification Of A woman is the maverick director's own bookend to his lifelong exploration of the imprecise nature of human relationships, incommunicability and alienation. After his wife leaves him, a film director (ostensibly Antonioni's alter-ego, played by Tomas Milian) is in a limbo, searching for a muse, whilst preparing his new film. He enters into a passionate affair with a striking young aristocratic woman (Daniela Silverio). Soon a stranger warns him, with threats, to stop seeing her and some weeks later, after a lover's row, she vanishes… Whilst searching for her, he meets a beautiful young actress (Christine Boisson), whose curiosity is piqued to find the missing woman. (Cult Films)
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I liked Blow-Up, although even then I realized that it was a film on the edge, i.e., crossing a very delicate line could actually greatly decrease the overall impression. I didn't enjoy the adventure, so I was expecting how my third encounter with this acclaimed director's work would turn out. The result is once again more than doubtful, so I will avoid this Italian creator altogether in the future. Identification of a Woman is a typical festival film that can bring enthusiasm to a certain type of audience, but for the majority of regular film fans, it is unwatchable. From my point of view, it is strongly self-centered, manneristic, and above all, a boring spectacle, after which I could only conclude that I successfully wasted two and a quarter hours of my time. It's not just about dragging out the runtime and the painfully slow pace, but also about the quality of the storytelling. In the end, I knew about director Niccolò, his value scale, his relationship toward women, and the motives that guide his behavior towards them, essentially as much as at the beginning - which is nothing. Overall impression: 25%.
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