Four Turinese women try to make sense of a friend's suicide. Criterion Collection Year 1955 Video Release 2016-06-07 Studio Criterion Collection Genre Drama MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 106 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis This major early achievement by Michelangelo Antonioni bears the first signs of the cinema-changing style for which he would soon be world-famous. Le amiche The Girlfriends is a brilliantly observed, fragmentary depiction of modern bourgeois life, conveyed from the perspective of five Turinese women. As four of the friends try to make sense of the suicide attempt of the fifth, they find themselves examining their own troubled romantic lives. With suggestions of the theme of modern alienation and the fastidious visual abstraction that would define his later masterpieces such as L'avventura, L'eclisse, and Red Desert, Antonioni's film is a devastating take on doomed love and fraught friendship. Director Michelangelo Antonioni Cast Michelangelo Antonioni; Eleonora Rossi Drago; Gabriele Ferzetti; Franco Fabrizi; Valentina Cortese; Madeleine Fischer