Red Desert / Il Deserto Rosso

It would be hard to overstate Michelangelo Antonioni’s influence on postwar cinema, architecture and design, fashion, and literature, even on modern conceptions of the intellectual and the erotic. Antonioni (1912–2007), whose fascination with mediated reality only deepened over time, was a restless experimenter with composition, camera movement, cutting, and storytelling.

Antonioni’s first color film Red Desert is an audiovisual tour de force. Hope you could have the chance to see it. It is like Rothko in cinema....