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De Chirico? No, that would be more Bunuel. Antonioni

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In Reply to: One of my all time favs posted by Victor Khomenko on March 19, 2005 at 19:29:32:

is much more a Pollock, Stella, Newman...abstract. Antonioni completely shattered our expectations of what a film should/could be (like the Abstract artists) and moved the "action" from what happened on the screen to what happened within the viewer's perception and feelings.
That being said, I prefer his masterworks, "The Passenger" and "Blow-up." They are much more complex, complete and show a maturing. The 3 films you mentioned I think of as necessary steps, or studies. Brilliant ones, of course.

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Re: De Chirico? No, that would be more Bunuel. Antonioni - Victor Khomenko 06:23:58 03/20/05 (0)
I was specifically talking about L'Avventura, not Antonioni in general, when I suggested my comparisson. Scenes towards the end are very much De Chirico-esque, in my opinion. But minor point, regardless.
I agree that the three are the transitionary works, great as they are, and we already agreed before on the Passenger - I think it is the best film he made. I am much cooler towards the Blow-Up, but the Passenger is among the nest films ever made by anyone.

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