A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Cinematography
Gianni Di Venanzo turns Milan into a character drowning in glass and rain.
Direction
Antonioni's negative space speaks louder than any dialogue ever could.
Acting
Jeanne Moreau's face: an entire novel of disappointment in one look.
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Antonioni's 'Incommunicability Trilogy'—he basically invented cinematic loneliness and made it look expensive.
Monica Vitti was so inexperienced she kept looking at the camera; Antonioni kept the takes where her alienation read as character.
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