Word: antonioni
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Harvey, who also pioneered the distribution of Bergman and Antonioni films in the United States, and who produces English horror movies, arrived at his judgment by watching and listening to the people in his theaters...
Director Elio Petri is apparently the chief villain, both for taking on so uneventful a screenplay and for composing such ugly shots. Petri used the technicians and the cameraman who worked with Antonioni on Red Desert. He has proven how effectively a film-maker can nullify such technical contributions by composing his images with the carelessness of a soap-opera director...
...complete his rendering of the environment of modern man, Antonioni uses the sounds of modern industry throughout the film. Gears creak, steam valves blow, and spiked heels click loudly on asphalt pavements. The harshness of these sounds contrasts with the soft rolling of the waves during the beach scene and with the general silence which pervades the film...
...Antonioni recognizes the beauty of that silence, as well as the enormous beauty of the factory itself. But, as Giuliana tells her son, the yellow sulfur flame from a smokestack, so similar to a candle, is intensely poisonous. Perhaps the world of the white-frocked scientist will be better than what has gone before it, perhaps there are dangers we do not recognize. Only one conclusion is clear: man has created his new environment and now must accept the consequences...
...Antonioni shot most of Th Red Desert with a telephoto lens, using various degress of magnification to achieve just the amount of flatness and focus that he wanted at any given moment. Antonioni, the consumate film-painter, has manipulated every device of film technology to assure that each tiny smudge will help create the exactly correct impression. He has challenged us to develop, not only our aesthetic, but our human sensitivity as well...