Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)
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He made films where almost nothing happens and everything feels wrong — beautiful, slow, saturated with dread you can't name. His "alienation trilogy" in the early '60s turned ennui into high art, and Blowup made a murder mystery out of whether anything had happened at all.
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in northern Italy in 1912 and spent decades as a screenwriter and editor before his breakout. Between 1960 and 1962 he released L'Avventura, La Notte, and L'Eclisse — three films that stripped narrative to a whisper and let modern landscapes do the talking, a trilogy that redefined what cinema could hold. Blowup followed in 1966, an English-language riddle about a London photographer and a photograph that may or may not show a crime; it earned him Oscar nominations for directing and writing. The Passenger came in 1975, another multilingual drift through identity…
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The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears.
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
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