power, perhaps we'll understand the entire universe and the reasons behind so many things." His nephew responds, "And then?" Cast Tomás Milián as Niccolò Daniela Silverio as Mavi Christine Boisson as Ida Lara Wendel as Girl at swimming pool Veronica Lazar as Carla Enrica Antonioni as Nadia Sandra Monteleoni as Mavi's sister Marcel Bozzuffi as Mario Gianpaolo Saccarola as The gorilla Arianna De Rosa as Mavi's friend Dado Ruspoli as Mavi's father Carlos Alberto Valles as Close-up man Sergio Tardioli as Butcher Itaco Nardulli as Lucio Paola Dominguín as Girl in window Production and release Identification of a Woman was shot in Rome and Venice and premiered at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival on 13 May, where it was awarded the 35th Anniversary Prize. Reception Initial critical reactions to the film were mixed. To German critic Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (Die Zeit), Identification of a Woman looked as if it had been produced by Italy's consumer goods industry for the sophisticated taste: "so cool, so chique, so expensive". In his 1982 review for the New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film "an excruciatingly empty work" and "beautiful and sad—virtually a parody of the director's great L'Avventura and some of his other earlier films." In an October 2011 essay published to accompany a release of a Criterion Collection edition, critic John Powers pointed out that the film had been made when Antonioni was nearing seventy: "this is one of those autumnal movies—think Rio Bravo or An Autumn Afternoon—in which an aging director allows himself to be more relaxed and genial than in his most finely tuned work. Far from serving up a major statement about the human condition—something Antonioni was never shy about doing—Identification of a Woman comes tinged with modesty and irony. His first feature set in Italy since 1964’s Red Desert, it finds him taking a provisional measure of how the modern world has been shifting around him." References External links 1982 films 1980s Italian-language films 1982 drama films Films set in Italy Films about film directors and producers Films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Films with screenplays by Tonino Guerra Italian drama films French drama films 1980s Italian films 1980s French films