Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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A beautiful shop girl from Milan is "discovered" and made into a film star. She is seduced by and marries her producer, although she does not love him, and he immediately takes over her life. She gives up her film career to become a lonely, bored housewife. She begins an affair with an actor, which eventually ruins her marriage. Her attempt at a comeback in films fails. There is an interesting subtext here about what is real and not real, serious and superficial, as the line between her real life and her life in the movies is blurred. However, at this stage of Antonioni's career the melodramatic aspects are emphasized more than the artistic ones, which not coincidentally is one of the issues with which the on-screen filmmakers struggle, adding yet another level of reality to this unusual film.
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