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Identification of a Woman [VHS]

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A director's search for a female character to inspire his nextfilm is frustrated by his loss of two lovers. The first leaves him foranother woman. The second presents him with the unexpected result of a previous relationship. Bastardy makes wholehearted commitment difficult in both relationships. The theme of uncertain parentage extends, especially in the film's first half hour, to how one scene follows from another. Which director, Antonioni or his character, is calling the shots? They find agreement in the greater theme: how love and sex form an oblique angle to one another. Antonion wrote, directed, and edited this film. His mastery of the medium is evident everywhere. American viewers can finally see a key piece in the progress of a great artist's work.

Being a master in all technological aspects, Antonioni is simply a bore. Yes, isolation of modern society is his theme, so what? Russians wrote about that ages ago, and Antonioni sure adds nothing to what has already been said about the matter.

This film is tremendously boring.

Those who love clean camera angles can very easily concentrate on those, so the film has its uses. The angles are very nice.