Word: antonioni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumvirate-along with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)-which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums...
...association is largely a journalists' creation. Fellini, 41, and Antonioni, 48, are experimenters whose latest films delicately dissect the effete upper classes. Visconti, who is 55, still concerns himself with peasants and is old-guard; in Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...
Part Two, says Antonioni, "seems to describe how a person is searched for. but it really describes how she is forgotten." Anxious, guilty, deeply unsettled and finally exhausted. Sandro looks to Claudia for-comfort? oblivion? sex? It's all the same to Sandro. He is one of those men who, at the least sign of strain or difficulty, reach for a woman the way other men reach for a cigarette. Claudia resists, but when the search takes Sandro to the mainland, she goes along, and the inevitable happens. At first they prosecute the search with determination, but as they...