Line #26 Film/Leamiche


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3	''Le amiche'' (''The Girlfriends'' in English) is a 1955 film by Italian director Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. His first collaboration with cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, it was adapted from a story by Cesare Pavese.
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5	The plot revolves around several young, upper-class women living in Turin. It is set into motion when one of the heroines, Clelia, returns to the city from Rome only to land in a hotel and find on her first evening there that a woman in the adjacent room, Rosetta, has made a suicide attempt. Later a friend of Rosetta, Momina, joins her to find out why Rosetta tried to kill herself.
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8	!! Tropes used:
9	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Played with for Lorenzo and Nene. While the husband returns to his wife even [[spoiler: after the suicide of his lover]] it is still unclear whether he loves her or is afraid to lose her because of purely materialist concerns.
10	* BittersweetEnding: Clelia leaves wary of the marriage with the man whom she probably loves but who is not her equal socially.
11	* BlatantLies: Lorenzo saying to Rosetta that he does not need anyone. [[spoiler: Actually he needs his wife albeit for purely egoistical reasons so this trope is zigzagged because he might be sincere about his own feelings.]]
12	* BookEnds:: In the beginning Clelia arrives to Turin from Rome, in the end she departs from Turin to Rome.
13	* BreakTheCutie: Lorenzo does this to Rosetta.
14	* BrokenBird: Rosetta who tries to commit a suicide. [[spoiler: Initially she fails, eventually she succeeds]]
15	* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Momina notices that Clelia, who is elegantly dressed, subverts this trope in contrast to many fashion designers.
16	* DeadpanSnarker: Cesare. And Momina too.
17	* DeathOfTheHypotenuse [[spoiler: Rosetta]]
18	* DramaticIrony: Lorenzo first forces everyone to enter the trattoria to have dinner there when other party members are hesitant intending to seek for another place. Later he has a breakdown in that venue, gets into fight with Cesare and leaves it the first.
19	* DrivenToSuicide
20	* EasilyForgiven: Lorenzo by Nene.
21	* ForeShadowing: [[spoiler: The hotel maid cries about Rosetta that she is dead. While it is a suicide that is soon botched later Risetta drowns herself and dies.]]
22	* KarmaHoudini: Lorenzo remains unpunished.
23	* InterruptedSuicide: Rosetta who was at first even taken for already dead by the hotel maid. Then Clelia checked her and called an ambulance. [[spoiler: Later Rosetta drowns herself in the river.]]
24	* ItsAllMyFault: Clelia recognises that she too is partly to blame [[spoiler: for the death of Rosetta.]]
25	* LoveCannotOvercome: For Clealia and her lover.
26	* LoveTriangle: Lorenzo the husband, Nene the wife, Rosetta the lover (to Lorenzo).
27	* MoodWhiplash: Clelia after [[spoiler: the suicide of Rosetta]] directs the dress show in the parlous of her venue completely cheerful. Then she sees Momina and [[spoiler: breaks down accusing both Momina and herself of death of Rosetta.]]
28	* OneWordTitle
29	* TheReveal: Cesare kisses Momina by the window, looks out and notices a man ostensibly stalking them. Momina shuts the curtains. Then it is revealed that he actually waits for his girl who below opens the door for him
30	* RidiculousProcrastinator: In the beginning Clelia arrives at the fashion studio its renovation underway three days before the deadline and finds out that nothing is ready. [[spoiler: Of course everything is completed in these three days after the final rush.]]
31	* SheetOfGlass: Averted, nothing happens to the glass carried by two extras.
32	* SoundtrackDissonance: The the scene where Lorenzo confesses to Rosetta than he doesn't need anyone she runs away down the street in despair to the accompaniment of the upbeat music.
33	* ThoseTwoGuys: Marietta and her boyfriend.
34	* TrainStationGoodbye: [[spoiler: Subverted as when Clelia leaves on the train, her lover does not approach her. She leaves without exchanging good-bye.]]
35	* VacationEpisode: Characters make a trip on a holiday from Turin to the nearest seaside. It results in failure: the sea is stormy and cold and the heroines start to quarrel among themselves,

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