The Lady Without Camelias (1953) ( La signora senza camelie ) ( La dame sans camélia (Camille Without Camelias) )

The Lady Without Camelias (1953) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: La signora senza camelie
Alternate Title: La dame sans camélia (Camille Without Camelias)
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Michelangelo Antonioni

Written By:
Michelangelo Antonioni

Actors:
Lucia Bosé ..... Clara Manni
Gino Cervi ..... Ercole
Andrea Checchi ..... Gianni Franchi
Ivan Desny ..... Nardo Rusconi
Monica Clay ..... Simonetta
Alain Cuny ..... Lodi
Anna Carena ..... Clara's mother
Enrico Glori ..... Director
Laura Tiberti
Oscar Andriani
Gisella Sofio
Elio Steiner
Luisa Rivelli
Nino Dal Fabbro

Synopsis:

Signora Senza Camelie (Lady without Camelias or Camille without Camelias) was the third feature-length directorial effort by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is possible that the director invested a great deal of himself in the story's central character, a film producer played by Gino Cervi. Turning shopgirl Clara Manni (Lucia Bose) into a major movie star, Ercole "Ercolino" (Cervi) caps this Svengalilike action by marrying the girl. Her head in the clouds, Clara demands that her husband star her in an "artistic" production, rather than the sexy vehicles in which she's previously appeared. When the film bombs, so does the marriage. The film ends with a backhanded paean to "public taste," a commodity Antonioni seldom bothered himself with in his future films.

Perhaps the most unjustly neglected of Michelangelo Antonioni's early features, La Signora Senza Camelie (1953) is a caustic Cinderella story about a Milanese shop clerk (Lucia Bose) who briefly becomes a glamorous movie star. One of the cruelest and most accurate portraits of studio filmmaking and the Italian movie world that we have, it's informed by a visually and emotionally complex mise en scene that juggles background with foreground elements in a choreographic style recalling Welles at times. Though it's only Antonioni's third feature, and its episodic structure necessitates a somewhat awkward expositional method, this is mature filmmaking that leaves an indelible aftertaste. In Italian with subtitles.

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