When we call this name we recollect at once such movie masterpiece as “The Passenger”, “Blow-Up”, Zabriskie Point other great pictures. James Brown says about films of Michelangelo Antonioni as about aesthetically complex and he is right. “They are ambiguous works that pose difficult questions and resist simple conclusions. Classical narrative causalities are dissolved in favour of expressive abstraction.

Displaced dramatic action leads to the creation of a stasis occupied by vague feelings, moods and ideas. Confronted with hesitancy, the spectator is compelled to respond imaginatively and independent of the film. The frustration of this experience reflects that felt in the lives of Antonioni’s characters: unable to solve their own personal mysteries they often disappear, leave, submit or die. The idea of abandonment is central to Antonioni’s formal structuring of people, objects, and ideas. He evades presences and emphasises related absences. His films are as enigmatic as life: they show that the systematic organisation of reality is a process of individual mediation disturbed by a profound inability to act with certainty.”
Filmography
Dramas directed by Antonioni:
Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair) (1950)
La Signora senza camelie (The Lady without Camelias) (1953)
I Vinti (The Vanquished) (1953)
Tentato suicidio (Suicide Attempt) (1953);
episode of L’Amore in Città (Love in the City)
Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) (1955)
Il Grido (The Cry) (1957)
La Notte
L’Avventura (The Adventure) (1960)
La Notte (The Night) (1961)
L’Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962)
Il Deserto rosso (Red Desert) (1964)
Prefazione: Il Provino (Preface: The Screen Test) (1965);
episode of I Tre volti (The Three Faces)
Blow-Up (1966)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
The Passenger (Professione: Reporter) (1975)
Il Mistero di Oberwald (The Oberwald Mystery) (1980)
Identificazione di una donna (Identification of a Woman) (1982)
Al di là delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds) (1995), Co-directed by Wim Wenders
segment in Eros omnibus film (2004)
I used to be somebody else…but I traded myself in.
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