Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
Direction
Antonioni's empty spaces speak louder than dialogue.
Cinematography
Turin never looked this gorgeously miserable.
Acting
Valentina Cortese's Momina is deliciously cruel.
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Antonioni's breakthrough—he basically invented the modern alienation aesthetic that would define European cinema for decades.
The Turin locations were deliberately chosen for their sterile modernism, contrasting with the emotional messiness of the bourgeois characters.
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