Edward Copeland's Tangents

My experience with Antonioni doesn't extend much beyond yours, although 1961's La Notte is an interesting film, featuring good performances by Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau. Blow-Up is one of those films I find alternately frustrating and fascinating (the ambiguity doesn't bother me so much as the pacing at certain junctures). Still, it's a provocative film on more than one level, with some truly astonishing sequences.

Gee, it's been a rough week for European cinema...
 

I'm pretty much the same as you both, although I happen to rather dislike Blow-Up. But, God, could the man point the camera and I suppose while the analytical aspects of his cinema was more interesting than his cinema, itself, the man was unbelievably talented.
 

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Ah, finally somebody mentions "The Passenger".

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The Passenger has been in my GreenCine queue forever, but it's always on long wait and I haven't seen it.
 

Watch L'Avventura again - originally it bored me, but I caught it again recently, and I've come to the conclusion that beyond being a revolutionary film, it's also an excellent, fascinating and quite a moving one.

I didn't think much of La Notte and I saw Blow-Up as several gorgeous, staggering sequences surrounded by a whole lot of pretence and posturing. But all the same, each of them left me excited to see more of this man's work.

His passing is a major loss.