vellutogrigio

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Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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Well... was my review criticized for its format (dialogue) or for the content? This way I'll know how to adjust in the future (if it's for the format).

Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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@zigghio: the saddest thing was seeing him advertise bags or suitcases, five or six years ago, along with his young wife. He has been, moreover, very unfortunate: he hasn’t spoken in almost thirty years, and he is rapidly approaching a hundred (he was born in 1910 or 1911, I believe).

Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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@zighio: I apologize, you're right. In my haste, I got confused with Bellocchio's Prince of Homburg; - anyway, according to most, Il mistero di Oberwald is also a load of junk.

Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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@poletti: it's not slowness that is Antonioni's flaw, don't hide behind a finger. And then be more polite in your criticisms; there is an extremism in you that worries me, just as much as the conformism of your tastes. @death: I hope you grasp the irony of my self-vote, otherwise I don't know what to say; @zigghio: Antonioni had a stroke in '82, after has given us mediocre films like Identificazione di una donna, and, above all, La principessa di Homburg.

Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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@alterego: in fact, Grigio is perhaps more intelligent and critical than Professor Velvet; you will notice that in the dialogue the latter is the one who blindly defends the film, while Mr. Grigio understands his criticisms and attempts to refute them. It seems like a battle between the "cultured" and the "uncultured," but it is not. Furthermore, implicitly, Mr. Grigio, coming from a petty-bourgeois background if not outright proletarian, exposes the reactionary and conservative nature of Antonioni's cinema, even when the director seems to side with the youth by depicting - in his own way - their world (Blow Up, Zabriskie).

Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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To Randolph... after seeing Antonioni so many times "my hair hurts." I raise the score of the review on my own because your 1s reek of mockery towards the quality of my writing, tainted by an apodictic favoritism for the Ferrarese director.

Michelangelo Antonioni Blow Up

15 may 07

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...mmmm, my review, in the form of a dialogue, attempted to highlight in a whimsical manner the differing views on Antonioni's cinema and his - aristocratic - detachment from reality. It is a cinema that, despite betraying an intellectual vocation, fails to tell us anything about reality - falling short in the description of the elusive "poetics of incomunicability" and, for this reason, today feels tremendously aged (perhaps only Professione Reporter escapes this fate, also thanks to Nicholson). I therefore quote Mr. Grigio, who, while (pretending to be) ignorant, points out the "sore spot."