Modern Michelangelo; The National Gallery of Art Salutes An Italian Master of the Cinema

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Publication: The Washington Post

Date: 2008-07-27 00:00:00

For a universally acknowledged maestro, Michelangelo Antonioni is still remarkably polarizing.

That Antonioni, the subject of a current retrospective recently launched at the National Gallery of Art, revolutionized cinematic grammar is undisputed. (Antonioni died a year ago this month at the age of 94.) After a decade in post-World War II Italy making that era's signature neorealist films, he broke with the form and proceeded to create minimalist, static portraits of spiritual ennui that, with their long takes and wide, windy spaces, seemed to ...

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