After his wife leaves him, a film director is searching for a muse, while preparing his new film. He enters into a passionate affair with a striking young aristocratic woman. But after a stranger threatens him ordering to stop seeing her, she vanishes shortly after... While searching for her, he encounters a beautiful young actress, who joins him on the hunt for his missing muse.

Tellingly prescient, Identification of a Woman is a spellbinding anti-romance depicting a modernising world beset by fear, and was awarded the Anniversary Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

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