This Savage Art

A day after Ingmar Bergman leaves us another cinematic great is gone. Michelangelo Antonioni has passed away in Rome at 94. Antonioni was an intellect who contributed to the vital art cinema scene in the 60′s with Blow Up and The Red Desert. Thematically his films dealt with alienation and his use of vast space to symbolize his character’s disillusion with their bourgeois lives became his trademark style. Do yourself a favor and rent The Passenger if you want to see this master at work. Just a caveat, his films are not for the ADD inclined.

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