It’s the story of a shop clerk named Clara (played by the captivating Lucia Bosè) who finds Read More »
Tag Archives: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Passenger AKA Professione: reporter (1975) Michelangelo Antonioni, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. Read More »
The Mystery of Oberwald AKA Il mistero di Oberwald (1980) Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Branciaroli
One long and painful decade after the brutal assassination of her husband Read More »
Zabriskie Point (1970) Michelangelo Antonioni, Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria Read More »
Love in the City (1953) Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. Read More »
Beyond the Clouds (1995) Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Read More »
Il grido (1957) Michelangelo Antonioni, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair
After living seven years with the mechanic Aldo, having a daughter with him, the simple woman Irma is informed that her absent husband had just died in Sydney. Read More »
Eclipse (1962) Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Drama, Romance
At the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her involvement with her boyfriend, the author Ricardo, after a troubled night. Read More »
La Notte (1961) Michelangelo Antonioni, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Drama
In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book Read More »
Story of a Love Affair (1950) Michelangelo Antonioni, Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Crime, Drama, Romance
Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi). Read More »
Identificazione di una donna / Identification of a Woman (1982) Michelangelo Antonioni, Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Drama, Romance
The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him Read More »
Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Read More »
L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Drama, Mystery
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean.
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Il deserto rosso / Red Desert (1964) Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Drama
In a bleak rundown industrial area a young woman, Giuliana, tries to cope with life. She’s married to Ugo the manager of a local plant but is soon having an affair with one of his co-workers, Corrado Zeller, who is visiting. Giuliana is unstable, not quite knowing anymore just what her role is, whether that be a wife, a mother or just another person. Her escape from life is short-lived however as Zeller is simply using her to satisfy his own needs and desires.
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Le amiche (1955) Michelangelo Antonioni, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Clelia comes from Rome to her native Turin, to set up a new fashion salon. On her first night, the woman in the next room of her hotel takes an overdose of pills. Clelia becomes involved with this woman, Rosetta, and three of her rich women friends, Momina, Nene, and Mariella. Momina is older than the others, and lives apart from her husband. Her current lover is Cesare, the architect of Clelia’s salon. Nene is a talented ceramics artist, and lives with her fiance, the painter Lorenzo. Mariella is a flighty woman only interested in having a good time. Clelia becomes attached to Carlo, the architect’s assistant, but the other women look down on him as he comes from a working class background. Momina, with the help of Clelia, discovers that Rosetta fell in love with Lorenzo as he was painting her portrait. Momina then encourages Rosetta to go after Lorenzo, even though he and Nene were supposed to marry soon.
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