'''''Le amiche''''' ({{IPA-|it|le aˈmiːke|}}, lit. "The girlfriends") is a 1955 Italian [[drama film]] directed by [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] and starring [[Eleonora Rossi Drago]], [[Gabriele Ferzetti]], [[Franco Fabrizi]], and [[Valentina Cortese]].<ref name="Antonioni">{{cite book|title=Michaelangelo Antonioni |editor1-last=Jansen |editor1-first=Peter W. |editor2-last=Schütte |editor2-first=Wolfram |publisher=Carl Hanser Verlag |location=Munich and Vienna |year=1984}}</ref><ref name="Pipolo">{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4095-le-amiche-friends-italian-style |title=Le amiche: Friends—Italian Style |first=Tony |last=Pipolo |website=Criterion Collection |date=7 June 2016 |access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref> Based on [[Cesare Pavese]]'s 1949 novella ''Tra donne sole'' (lit. "Among women only" or "Among single women"),<ref name="Antonioni" /><ref name="Pipolo" /> ''Le amiche'' portrays a group of five upper-class women in [[Turin]] and their various relationships with men. It premiered at the [[16th Venice International Film Festival]],<ref name="Antonioni" /> where it was awarded the [[Silver Lion]].<ref name="filmdienst">{{cite web|url=https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/25534/die-freundinnen |title=Die Freundinnen |language=de |website=Filmdienst |access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref>
