'Le amiche' is very funny at times (the humour is dry). This is the first movie i have seen so far of Antonioni and i am looking forward to his other films too.
The characters are very well realized and have depth even though some of their personalities are shallow.
The film is insightful in its observations of the different types of characters and they all seem very real-to-life.
The film ends with Clelia leaving Turin to go back to Rome and her lover Carlo is seen standing at the train station and watching her leave. I feel like this film would have felt more present and in-the-moment if the last shot of the film was not of the train leaving (from Carlo's perspective) but the last shot should have been inside the train, being Clelia's perspectve. This way, it would seem that there is hope and a future for Clelia away from the shallow, bourgeois people of Turin. But that's just my opinion.
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