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SUBLIME CINEMA #95 - ANTONIONI’S RED DESERT

Antonioni was fixated throughout his career on the modern world’s effect on human nature and the environment, presenting characters who seem at times both helpless and heroic in the face of a dominating industrial encroachment. There is little nostalgia for the ‘time before’, only a frank confrontation with what he saw happening around him. He framed his characters (and often his muse Monica Vitti) against soulless expanses of industrial and post-industrial landscape - most strikingly in Red Desert - still finding an ethereal beauty within it.

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La notte, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)

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Monica Vitti & Richard Harris, “Deserto rosso” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

(Giffeteria)

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“In te vacillo, cado e m’alzo ardendo. Tu tra tutti gli esseri hai il diritto di vedermi debole.”

— Pablo Neruda

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La Notte (1961) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

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All of my Mahmood tributes + 2 more unfinished under the cut ⬇⬇⬇

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Some image comparisons of the works by Giorgio de Chirico (left) & Michelangelo Antonioni (right)

Some of the above comparisons probably don’t make sense without providing the context of the scenes of the Antonioni’s films, but here it is. I think it’s amazing how both artists put people against scenery in a very similar way, where the landscapes are often alien, terrifying, and otherworldly. 

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Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957)

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Il suffit de garder les yeux ouverts : tout se charge de signification, Michelangelo Antonioni,

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Antonioni on the void.

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In the Mood for Love, 2000

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Mi son rinchiuso per curarmi ed è stato letale, la solitudine mi ha ucciso come un vegetale.

Claver Gold - Le viscere del male