Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
Direction
Antonioni's emerging visual language
Cinematography
Stark black-and-white moral shadows
Writing
Biting class critique, uneven translation
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Antonioni disowned the film after producers forced a happier ending on the French episode.
Made during Italy's economic miracle, it captures elite anxiety that prosperity revealed spiritual bankruptcy rather than solving it.
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