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Michelangelo Antonioni
Directing L'Avventura and Blowup, films that made uncertainty and modern alienation central to cinema.
L'Avventura · Red Desert
- Born
- 29 September 1912
- Birthplace
- Ferrara, Italy
- Died
- 30 July 2007
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni replaced conventional resolutions with attention to landscapes, silences and relationships that drift apart.
Early life
Ferrara upbringing
Grew up in a comfortable family and developed interests in music and drawing.
Before directing
Studied economics at Bologna and worked as a film critic.
Career
- 1940s
Documentary beginnings
Made films about working lives, including Gente del Po.
- 1950
Feature debut
Directed Story of a Love Affair.
- 1960s
International breakthrough
His Italian dramas and English-language Blowup established a distinctive modernist cinema.
- 1995
Late recognition
Received an honorary Oscar and co-directed Beyond the Clouds.
Selected work
L'Avventura
A woman's disappearance gives way to an unsettled relationship.
Red Desert
An industrial landscape surrounds a woman's psychological distress.
Blowup
A photographer cannot establish what his pictures reveal.
Beyond work
Visual art
Continued to draw and paint alongside filmmaking.
After a stroke
Worked with assistance after a 1985 stroke affected his speech and movement.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗British Film Institute: film and context ↗Photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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