Word: antonioni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unquestioning beliefs. A puritanical bore who turns off friends and fellow factory workers, Kačer is beaten in a beer hall by resentful colleagues, ultimately comes to realize that his pompous pronunciamentos can no longer be the life of the Party. Obviously influenced by the early Antonioni, Director Evald Schorm, 36, shows his courage less in style than in subject matter. Because of his iconoclasm, the 1964 film was banned for export until recently...
...been denied top honors twice before by the inscrutable Cannes Film Festival jury, and she had been passed over only last month for an Oscar. So now, with each other for moral support, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni, 54, and British Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 30, she in sequined tunic and tights, braved a screening at Cannes of Blow-Up, in which Vanessa had taken a relatively small part simply because "I wanted to be directed by Antonioni." After the showing, Vanessa went home to London, but Antonioni stayed on for the happy ending: a Golden Palm applauding Blow...
Canadians know what they are not-not U.S.-American, not British, not French-but they do not seem to know what they are. They suffered from an identity crisis well before modern novelists discovered the condition, and their sense of no-self could fill half a dozen Antonioni movies. "We have achieved the most amazing things," says Prime Minister Lester Pearson, "a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time...
Devoid of sexual passion, a corporate creature whose work is his life, "he" becomes the Oriental equivalent of the passive Antonioni villain. In the end, "she" and "he" lie side by side in bed, untouching, distant relatives by marriage; their bleak lives infinitely poorer than those of their impoverished neighbors...
BLOWUP. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's far-out, uptight and vibrantly exciting thriller-parable...