Product Details

• Actors: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel, Veronica Lazar
• Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni
• Producers: Identification of a Woman ( Identificazione di una donna ) ( Identification d'une femme ), Identification of a Woman, Identificazione di una donna, Identification d'une femme
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Surf Film
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001IER618
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,853 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: A divorced middle-aged Italian film director (Tomas Millian) is seeking meaning and love in both his life and his film. He becomes involved with an aristocratic woman, but trouble ensues when he begins to receive anonymous threats demanding that he abandon the relationship. When the woman mysteriously disappears, the director begins seeing an actress who works in experimental plays. She too leaves after telling him that she is carrying another man's child. In his quest for meaning, all the director manages to find is meaningless sex and lots of metaphors for isolation and abandonment: fog, open doors, empty landscapes. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...Identification of a Woman ( Identificazione di una donna ) ( Identification d'une femme )

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Creature_Comfort, May 26, 2010

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Latino (uk) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Identification Of a Woman - (Mr Bongo Films) (1982) [DVD] (DVD)

It's churlish to complain that Identification of a Woman isn't the equal of L'Avventura, La Notte, Red Desert, Blow Up, Zabriskie Point, or The Passenger. If it was, it would be a masterpiece of European art cinema. While it perhaps falls a little short of those Antonioni high points, it's nonetheless an intriguing and beautiful piece of work in its own right. The customary Antonioni themes - the elusiveness of desire, the fragility of identity, the mysteries of visual perspective, the unreliability of knowledge - are explored in typically elliptical and aleatory fashion, and lead towards a characteristically inconclusive but bafflingly moving ending. And along the way there are scenes that are the equal of Antonioni's best for mood, atmosphere and sheer cinematic creativity and skill. Niccolo and Mavi's drive into the fog is a scene of brilliant mystery and power. Their climb up the stairs of a swanky villa to an elite Roman soiree is an object lesson in how to use the camera and editing to generate a sense of foreboding and philosophical unease out of the simplest of materials. Niccolo and Ida's voyage out onto a Venetian lake is a gorgeous metaphor for their unfathomable relationship. And if anyone can tell me what that mysterious object in the tree - to which Antonioni keeps drawing us back - outside Niccolo's window is all about, I'd be grateful. The animated final scene of the film, which some viewers find a let-down, is brilliant - almost the equal in conception and weird appropriateness to the endings of Blow Up or Zabriskie Point. This is a film which improves with every viewing and ought to be embraced as the last significant work of a great master.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Minor Antonioni..., April 19, 2009

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Grigory's Girl "Grigory's Girl" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Identification Of a Woman - (Mr Bongo Films) (1982) [DVD] (DVD)

This is an obscure, latter day film by Antonioni, the last one he made before suffering a stroke that incapacitated him, and left him with no voice. It's not a particularly memorable one. The only scene I vividly recall is a traffic jam scene where the protagonist (a film director) is searching for the said woman in the title on a fog shrouded freeway. It's an astonishing scene, but it's really the only memorable scene in a 132 minute film. Antonioni pretty much lost it after The Passenger (some have said he lost it after Zabriskie Point, which is definitely debatable), and while this film has such excellent Antonionish moments, it's not a really memorable film. A shame.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Can play on any Personal Computer with DVD drive, February 7, 2010

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Larry G (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Identification of a Woman ( Identificazione di una donna ) ( Identification d'une femme ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - United Kingdom ] (DVD)

Anthony and others should please note that european PAL-television DVDs that have all-region coding CAN be played on any Personal Computer with a DVD drive in the United States.

When shopping for DVDs there are two features to check: TV format and region coding. The US has NTSC TV format and Europe has PAL TV format. Additionally the US region code is number 1 and the Europe region code is number 2. Some DVDs have all-region coding which means they will play anywhere in the world.

US DVD players are NTSC TV format. If you have a PAL DVD like "Identification of a Woman", you can watch it on your portable computer or desktop computer with a DVD drive. That's how I would watch it.

Whether sitting 12 feet away from my TV or 3 feet away from my portable computer, the viewing area of the movie is the same size to my eye. Enjoy.