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...Italy and discovered the shimmering Italian sun. When he returned to England, the drama of nature replaced that of scientific investigation on his canvas. The 1790 Italian Landscape with its verdant hills touched with lavender is one of many done from recollection. If it lacks some of the vigor of Wright's candlelit scenes it is sophisticated enough for its time. The slightly arbitrary colors show a concern with pattern rather than strict representation. Whole hillsides are brushed in as relatively flat-areas set against the equally flat cliffs or gorges, both taking their shape from outline rather than...
Such politicking leaves little time for effective government; and Italy, for all its economic vigor, is otherwise in disarray. The country ranks an embarrassing 20th in per capita income ($1,400 per year) among nations, trailing not only Japan but all of Western Europe's major industrial states. Italian workers are unhappy about low wages. Students complain about overcrowded universities. The country's penal code is outdated. Seven out of ten Italians polled recently in a public-opinion survey were disgusted enough to say that they were willing to vote temporary power to an "honest, energetic and disinterested...
...squat outside" the camp, orders Deuteronomy 23: 13, "you shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full of vigor." ("What he was full of was clearly semen," says Sir Godfrey, "but we put it more delicately...
...gleaming cold plastic, the angry cells of student revolutionaries, the frighteningly busy shops of unsmiling L. A. gun merchants, the calmly professional violence of city jail-clearly delimits who stomps and who gets stomped. The bastions of power, Antonioni says, are stagnant, sadistic, and vengefully jealous of youthful vigor. The existential point sounds very much like Ken Kesey's argument that the price of really living in America is death...
Blow-Up, that slick portrayal of swinging London, was pure frippery compared with such masterpieces as L'Avventura and La Notte. Zabriskie Point, his new film about America, lacks even the superficial vigor of Blow-Up. It is to be hoped that Antonioni never goes on location in Australia...