le amiche (antonioni, 1955)

dated is the wrong word, but i feel like this movie looses something when it is viewed a half century + after it was made. if you look at it with the city (and, i'd venture to say, the time) as another important character--as AP suggested before the screening--then i can see the film's worth, but i'm not sure if it's an interesting enough character to make that worth too high. fantastic for what it is, but not mindblowing.

classics scale: 6/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047821/