Identification of a Woman (1982) is an Italian drama written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. The film follows a film director who moves through relationships and everyday encounters while searching for emotional connection and clarity in his personal life. Starring Tomas Milian, the story focuses on intimacy, distance, and the difficulty of truly understanding another person. The film is a late-career work by Antonioni and reflects his continued interest in modern relationships and identity.

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Michelangelo Antonionis rarely seen and underrated masterwork perhaps due to its renowned sexual explicitness. IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN is the maverick directors own bookend to his lifelong exploration of the imprecise nature of human relationships, incommunicability and alienation.

After his wife leaves him, a film director (ostensibly Antonionis alter-ego, played by Tomas Milian) enters into a passionate affair with a striking young aristocratic woman (Daniela Silverio). Soon a stranger warns him, with threats, to stop seeing her and some weeks later, after a lovers row, she vanishes… Whilst searching for her, he meets a beautiful young actress (Christine Boisson), whose curiosity is piqued to find the missing woman…

Each frame, rigorously conceived by Antonioni and painted by Carlo Di Palmas rich, beautifully modulated cinematography, is an essential at times subliminal part of the storytelling itself; culminating in the legendary filmic tour-de-force that is the fogbound highway scene. This release benefits from the most recent 2K restoration finally doing justice to the original vision of the artists painterly yet unsettling masterpiece.

Tellingly prescient, it also depicts a modernising world beset by fear: with gun-toting neighbour, alarmed-home, speeding blindly in fog, threats and disappearance… This spellbinding anti-romance is a quie