http://www.cafepellicola.com/2007/06/18/the-girlfriends-%e2%80%93-le-amiche-%e2%80%93-1955/ window to fine italian cinema Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.cafepellicola.com/2007/06/18/the-girlfriends-%e2%80%93-le-amiche-%e2%80%93-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Dan Harper Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:43:48 +0000 http://s225510610.onlinehome.us/?p=39#comment-26 I read in an essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman that Antonioni was asked by an interviewer what advantage he thought he had over the author of the story, Cesare Pavese (who had committed suicide in 1950). Antonioni answered simply: "I'm alive!" Antonioni would develop formally but not thematically after this film, which I agree is his first (and most overlooked) masterpiece. But I have to remind myself that he was 43 when the film was released - not exactly a foundling artist. I read in an essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman that Antonioni was asked by an interviewer what advantage he thought he had over the author of the story, Cesare Pavese (who had committed suicide in 1950). Antonioni answered simply: “I’m alive!” Antonioni would develop formally but not thematically after this film, which I agree is his first (and most overlooked) masterpiece. But I have to remind myself that he was 43 when the film was released - not exactly a foundling artist.

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