The most openly erotic of Antonioni's features, and visually one of the most beautiful.
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07/31/07
Identification of a Woman (1982)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:6
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A divorced, middle-aged filmmaker (Milian) searching for a leading lady to star in his next feature comes to realize that he has been subconsciously utilizing this task to instead find a new lover.... [More]
Starring: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Reviews for Identification of a Woman
1 - 11 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
This is a respectable return by Antonioni to familiar thematic ground -- the impossibility of maintaining relationships in the contemporary world -- helped by a fine ironic underpinning and smoothly assured visuals.
08/29/06
A refreshing irony prevents the hardened art house pundit from wallowing in nostalgia and the metaphysics of 'portentous messages'.
02/09/06
No review available.
08/12/05
Identification of a Woman is an excrutiatingly empty work. It's also beautiful and sad -- virtually a parody of the director's great L'Avventura and some of his other earlier films.
08/30/04
Top CriticIf Antonioni ultimately fails he deserves full marks for setting out on this adventure.
05/24/03
...uneasy and difficult to pin down, like the paranoia of a dream.
12/20/02
Identification of a Woman is not an easy film, but it's a most welcome addition to Antonioni's canon.
05/22/01
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1982 film Identification of a Woman never saw release...and now we know why!
01/01/00
A lugubrious story.
01/01/00
There's a very good reason this moody, atmospheric effort was never released in the United States until now -- it isn't very good.
01/01/00
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