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Adua and Her Friends (Italian: Adua e le compagne), also known as Hungry For Love, is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and Tullio Pinelli.
Adua e le compagne: Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. With Simone Signoret, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Gina Rovere. When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
- (1.4K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Antonio Pietrangeli
- 1960-09-16
Adua and Her Friends, a mixture, shows its central women leaning upon each other for help before eventually splitting apart. As the author Bruno Di Marino notes in an essay accompanying the new RaroVideo release, nearly every adult male in the film proves to be unreliable for them.
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- Antonio Pietrangeli
- 5
- Domenico Modugno, Nando Angelini
Adua and Her Friends. The closure of brothels leaves Adua, Milly, Lolita and Marilina without their usual source of subsistence. The four young women decide to open a restaurant in the outskirts of Rome, in order to create a façade activity that allows them to continue the exercise of the "profession" to which they are accustomed.
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Deftly blending neorealist social commentary with Commedia all'italiana, Antonio Pietrangeli's Adua and Her Friends follows four prostitutes trying to open their own business after their brothel is shut down by a new law.
