Country: Italy
Year: 1957
Duration: 116'
After having been left by his companion Irma, Aldo wanders around the Po Delta with his daughter. The encounters with his former girlfriend Elvia, with the gas station attendant Virginia and with a whore, and his final attempt to reconcile with his companion all come to naught. “Virginia is no saint, that I know. But I loved her as though she were myself. Virginia is a symbol, the symbol of all the defects and all the weaknesses that lurk in the human heart. There is no compensation for qualities and defects in Virginia. Virginia is all defects. She doesn’t refuse goodness because she is bad, but simply because she doesn’t recognize it. She is a very poor creature, especially morally. Life makes fun of her and those rare times it offers her weapons to defend herself with, Virginia turns them against herself! Dear Virginia, I have loved you for this way you have of not knowing how to live, to the point that I have completely forgotten that, as a character, you are rather ungrateful. But I obliterated myself in front of you and together we fought, hoped, loved, and suffered. Even if they identify us as the same person, I will never be ashamed of you! Your feelings are universal, your reactions, human.” (Dorian Gray) Proiezione in collaborazione con la Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale
Biography
film director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (Ferrara, 1912 - Rome, 2007), after receiving a degree in economics, entered the world of theatre and cinema, writing reviews and later enrolling at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. After collaborating on the screenplay of A Pilot Returns (1942) by Roberto Rossellini and working as an assistant to Marcel Carné, he debuted in directing with the documentary People of the Po Valley. He debuted in fiction films in 1950 with Story of a Love Affair, which was followed by a series of movies including L’avventura, Red Desert, Blow-Up and The Passenger, making him a reference point in films about modern times. In 1995, he received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.
FILMOGRAFIA
Gente del Po (cm, doc., 1947), Cronaca di un amore (1950), La signora senza camelie (1953), I vinti (1953), Le amiche (1955), Il grido (1957), L’avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L’eclisse (1962), Il deserto rosso (1964), Blow-Up (1966), Zabriskie Point (1970), Professione: reporter (1975), ll mistero di Oberwald (1981), Identificazione di una donna (1982), 12 registi per 12 città (ep. Roma, cm, doc., 1989), Al di là delle nuvole (1995), Eros (ep. Il filo pericoloso delle cose, cm, 2004), Lo sguardo di Michelangelo (cm, doc., 2004).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
Michelangelo Antonioni
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini, Ennio De Concini
fotografia/cinematography
Gianni di Venanzo
montaggio/film editing
Eraldo da Roma
scenografia/production design
Franco Fontana
costumi/costume design
Pia Marchesi
musica/music
Giovanni Fusco
suono/sound
Vittorio Trentino
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Steve Cochran (Aldo), Alida Valli (Irma), Dorian Gray (Virginia), Betsy Blair (Elvia), Lyn Shaw (Andreina), Gabriella Pallotta (Edera), Mirna Girardi (Rosina)
produttore/producer
produzione/production
spa Cinematografica
coproduttore/coproducer
Robert Alexander
coproduzione/coproduction
Robert Alexander production
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