Identification Of A Woman details

Format: 18 DVD
Starring: Christine Boisson, Tomas Milian
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genres: Drama, World Cinema - German
Studio: MR BONGO FILMS
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Identification Of A Woman
18 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 2 hours 5 minutes
Rental release: 30 Jun 2008
Main languages: Italian
Subtitles: English
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  • A flawed work of strangeness

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By Yaloy (6 reviews) from London , 06 Apr 2009

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    Not everything works convincingly in this film, at least not on first viewing. However, it is original and strange. Antonioni clearly likes being fashionable too; he features a John Foxx sountrack - John Foxx was once part of the electronic avant guarde.

    Antonioni's films skate on the edge of an ennui; there is a meaninglessness about them; something of this atmosphere lingers in the film but in a way that is artistically satisfying

    The film charts the love life of a middle aged man, who is obviously the fiilm director himself and amounts to a meditation on the nature of love.
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  • The Title's the Most Intriguing Part

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 16 Dec 2011
    A poor and rather boring self indulgent effort, in which the protagonist, a film director would you believe, beds a young woman (in many explicit scenes), and tries to find other sexual trophies in his mixed up life. Not nearly as interesting as it sounds, believe me, at over two long hours. Some of the cinematography redeems the film a little, but it's not enough to stop you wanting a nap.
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  • hard to follow...

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By a customer from Bordon , 16 Dec 2009
    I've never found any of Antonioni's other films as incomprehensible as this one. My Italian isn't great, so I really need the subtitles, but even my limited grasp of the language was enough to make me realise that the quality of the translation in these subtitles was really TERRIBLE. Some of what was said wasn't translated at all. Given that the entire film was made up of a series of desultory conversations and not much action, it's pretty unforgivable of the DVD producers to have overlooked the crucial importance of giving it good quality subtitles. So I'm left wondering, is is a great film ... if you can follow the dialogue? I don't know, because most of the time I couldn't.
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  • Avoid

    Rated - 0.0 stars  
    By sophy300 (67 reviews) from Newcastle upon Tyne , 28 Aug 2009
    An incomprehensibly disjointed over-acted bad film and terrible music. You'll have more fun crushing your head in a vice.
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  • A flawed work of strangeness

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By Yaloy (6 reviews) from London , 06 Apr 2009

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    Not everything works convincingly in this film, at least not on first viewing. However, it is original and strange. Antonioni clearly likes being fashionable too; he features a John Foxx sountrack - John Foxx was once part of the electronic avant guarde.

    Antonioni's films skate on the edge of an ennui; there is a meaninglessness about them; something of this atmosphere lingers in the film but in a way that is artistically satisfying

    The film charts the love life of a middle aged man, who is obviously the fiilm director himself and amounts to a meditation on the nature of love.
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