Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death.
Frank LentricchiaTags: film frank-lentricchia michelangeo-antonioni the-sadness-of-antonioni
I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.
Frank LentricchiaTags: death film frank-lentricchia the-sadness-of-antonioni
Only the past is real.
Frank LentricchiaTags: past film frank-lentricchia the-sadness-of-antonioni
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.
Frank LentricchiaTags: past film black-and-white frank-lentricchia the-sadness-of-antonioni
No one can be the total cure for another person.
Frank LentricchiaTags: film cure frank-lentricchia the-sadness-of-antonioni
The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.
Frank LentricchiaTags: film michelangeo-antonioni
People are mysterious, even to themselves.
Frank LentricchiaIn the end, everything is found to be wanting.
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Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.
Frank LentricchiaTags: film realism frank-lentricchia the-sadness-of-antonioni
...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.
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