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A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
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Antonio Acqua
- Movie Theatre Owner
- (uncredited)
Emma Druetti
- Simonetta Rota's Mother
- (uncredited)
Rita Giannuzzi
- Simonetta Rota's Friend
- (uncredited)
Vittorio Manfrino
- Clara Manni's Father
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaMichelangelo Antonioni offered the lead to Lucia Bosè after both Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren turned it down.
- Quotes
Clara Manni: I was thinking of eternal love, all he wanted was an affair with a film star. And he got it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials (1965)
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"La Signora senza Camelie" is arguably Antonioni's first masterpiece. It's about a shop-girl 'discovered' by an ambitious producer who doesn't just want to make her a star but his wife as well and who then proceeds to make her miserable. It's not a great film about the cinema but then that's hardly the point; rather you can see in it the seeds of his later films about unhappy women and mentally abusive men.
As the unfortunate Clara, rich and bored like so many Antonioni heroines, the little known Lucia Bose is excellent and visually it is often extraordinary. It doesn't quite fit into the broader and deeper contextualization of the trilogy that began with "L'Avventura" but in its treatment of its heroine it is unmistakably the work of its director and it's a much more intellectually rigorous picture than anything his contemporaries was doing at the time, For anyone remotely interested in following the trajectory of Antonioni's career this is essential viewing.
As the unfortunate Clara, rich and bored like so many Antonioni heroines, the little known Lucia Bose is excellent and visually it is often extraordinary. It doesn't quite fit into the broader and deeper contextualization of the trilogy that began with "L'Avventura" but in its treatment of its heroine it is unmistakably the work of its director and it's a much more intellectually rigorous picture than anything his contemporaries was doing at the time, For anyone remotely interested in following the trajectory of Antonioni's career this is essential viewing.
- MOscarbradley
- Apr 26, 2015
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- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Lady Without Camelias (1953) officially released in Canada in English?
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