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Eclipse. The trouble with modern man, says Michelangelo Antonioni in most of his movies (L'Avventura, La Notte), is that he has gained the whole world and lost his own soul; the trouble with this picture, though it is certainly an effort of supreme style, is that Antonioni in his obsessive pessimism ignores an important fact of human life: a deep shadow can be cast only by a strong light...
...them, at what is left of their relationship. ''I tried to make you happy," he says hopelessly, and hopelessly she replies: "You did not succeed." Why not? What was missing in their lives? What do people need in order to be happy? In this gloomy little masterpiece, Michelangelo Antonioni does not try to answer such questions. He simply shows how one young woman tried to answer them-and failed. He tells the story of a luteless Orpheus and a promiscuous Eurydice who don't even know they're in hell...
...Grido. A mournful little movie, made in 1957, in which Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni first fumbled with the material he later handled so powerfully in L'Avventura...
...Grido. A mournful little movie, made in 1957, in which Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni first fumbles with the material he later handled so powerfully in L'Avventura...
...Grido is the rough draft of a masterpiece. In it Michelangelo Antonioni mines and examines the material that he later elaborated in L'Avventura, his sublime lament for the living dead...