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...call it mod, pop, turned-on, hip, or any of the other catch phrases of this label-happy era--asserted itself by establishing a new standard of moral behavior. The process obviously involved redefinition: in the '30's, photographer meant Stieglitz, Steichen, Dorothea Lange; now photographer means cool. But Michaelangelo Antonioni has other ideas...
...technical faults of Hiroshima and allowed Resnais to push further into the realm of abstraction. By 1963, when he made Muriel, Resnais was in unquestionable control of his medium, rendering the slightest impressions subject to his intent. At this juncture, Resnais seems far closer to the Italian director Michaelangelo Antonioni than to his New Wave counterparts; but then, anything is permissible in the New Wave...
Socrates, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Rimbaud, Wilde, Gide: What was that, Miss Brown...
...this, certainly, is worthy of some note. The minor characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie's end, but Jimson has always had a more realistic idea of his own worth, and he responds with...
FENWAY: Another Italian in the same vein, Michaelangelo Antonini, has turned out L'Avventura, which deals with the same society as La Dolce Vita, and draws many of the same conclusions. In telling his story of a missing person at an island party, Antonini produces a slow but polished work of art. (Won a Special Award at Cannes, and took first prize at the London Film Festival...