Identificazione di una donna/Identification of a Woman (1982)

The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about womens relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie - but also in his own life…

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women: at the same time, he searches for the right subject and actress for his next film. This spellbinding antiromance was a late-career coup for the legendary Italian filmmaker, and is renowned for its sexual explicitness and an extended scene on a fog-enshrouded highway that stands with the director’s greatest set pieces.

Criterion Collection
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio and Christine Boisson
Production land: Italy, France
Premiere Date: 23 May 1982 Cannes Film Festival
IMDb - 6.9 (889 votes)