05 August 2012

Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

6/10
I keep struggling to like Antonioni movies against every fibre of my being. I enjoyed the photography and direction of Red Desert, as well as the always watchable Monica Vitti. Although like L'Eclisse and L'Avventura, I find the getting-there to be the most annoying part. I like Antonioni's ideas and settings and photography far more than I've ever liked any of his characters and the inanities that often come out of their mouths. I'm starting to think his films would be great were it not for the people in them.

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