The disappearance of Claudia's best friend triggers her romantic closeness to her fiancé.
An Antonioni drama, in which the main idea seems to hover in the area of human superficiality and frivolity. The film is beautifully made, the spatial placement is flawless, the landscape of each scene is impeccably arranged, and yet the film disappoints. The audience who didn't live in the 1960s' Italy as presented by Antionioni will only recognize familiar human traits in a few certain cases. The characters' feelings are declared deep and impossible to resist but their actions expose these in their lack of content, uncovering a superficiality and lack of substance worthy of the sadness and frustration that only very few of the characters display in an obvious manner. That's all nice and good but the problem is in the lack of relatable-ness.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
With: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Rating: 7/10
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