Identificazione di una donna (1982)

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   Siskoid

   Antonioni's last feature film, Identification of a Woman, has a recursive quality that may autobiographically signal the end of his career. Tomas Milian stars as a film director between projects, in fact tepidly looking for his next film idea, his next leading lady, the next love of his life, the next PHASE in his life. I wouldn't say it's a film about writer's block, but it certainly evokes the transition between finishing something and starting something new, and the kind of despondency that can come with it. It's mostly about the man's relationships, one of them sexually explicit, and how he essentially sees them as film plots that thus must eventually end. Someone could see Antonioni's own trademark froideur in this ambivalence, keeping his subjects at bay. But there's an opacity to the film that makes it hard to connect with, mirroring the perfect fog it manages to capture (still can't fathom how it's done). Antonioni twice brings his hero/stand-in to environments the color of silver nitrate, and both times herald the climax of his love affairs. Places to get lost in, and like the protagonist, we're not always sure where we're going. 2 years 4 months ago
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   Agrimorfee

   Better than Zabriskie Point, not as good as Blow Up. 7 years 2 months ago
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   adgfc

   Underrated. 7 years 7 months ago

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