Time hasn’t dimmed the ability of these three late-period masterworks by the Spanish surrealist to provoke and confound.
It remains at once the most bracingly concrete and amorously diffuse of Antonioni’s films.
Quench your thirst for metonymic mastery by viewing the entirety of Antonioni’s modernist trilogy in stunning 1080p high-definition.
The final film in Antonioni’s modernist trilogy comes to Blu-ray with a sparkling transfer.
The film remains at once the most bracingly concrete and amorously diffuse work of Antonioni’s structuralist period.
The film is a distillation of Antonioni’s preferred themes and imagery: alienation, anxiety, modern life, and industrialized landscapes.
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life never stops moving forward.
Exquisitely rendered ennui. Criterion’s Blu-ray edition of Red Desert will take you there.
Ingmar Bergman dies in the morning. Michelangelo Antonioni dies at night. On the same day. In the middle of summer.
Remarkably, Stromboli doesn’t advocate the rejection of caution for passion.
The aesthetic make-up of the film isn’t only uniquely its own but it’s also too cool for words.
The film suggests that narrative preconceptions are as silly and arbitrary as morality.
L’Avventura, the first movement in Antonioni’s great tetralogy, remains the most haunting representation of the ennui of modern life.