Ricerca
A brief anti-conventional and intense love story built as a long conversation break in fragments over a 36-hour long period between a Japanese architect referred to as Him and a French actress, referred to as Her. They have had a brief relationship and are now separating. The two debate memory and forgetfulness as She prepares to depart, comparing failed relationships with the bombing of Hiroshima. Experimental, with a beautiful cinematography, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and at the Cannes Film Festival. He was honored by both Italian and New York critics.
A French actress is in Hiroshima to shoot a film on peace. She meets a Japanese man and they embark on a sexual relationship. While they make love she recounts her life and tells of her love for a German soldier, for which she was shamed and had her head shaved as punishment after the war. Images of the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb form the background to the story. An interesting fact is that along with composer George Delerue, there was musical input from Giovanni Fusco, soundtrack composer for Michelangelo Antonioni.
While researching the life of actress Micheline Presle, Maria de Medeiros finds herself on the trail of Luis Aramcheck, a film maker mysteriously disappeared in 1946, and uncovers a Hollywood plot against the European cinema of the postwar era.
Ho capito cose intense è ambientato tra le strade di una Napoli deserta a causa di un evento spettacolare che tiene incollati tutti gli abitanti al televisore: una partita di calcio della squadra partenopea. Un ragazzo stanco della propria condizione di spettatore abbandona il luogo in cui si trova, un circolo ricreativo dove è proiettata la partita, nell'istante in cui viene decretato il fischio di inizio.
A loud backgound noise can be heard in the work of Antonioni; the uncertain step and twist as Giuliana slides on the inclined plane of her neuroses; she passes very close to the horizon line of the great outlines of industrial and technological civilisation, of progress and depersonalised well-being that rewrites ethical and moral concerns, while it de-structures sensitivity, and colours, with the arid and contaminated land, the gaze on humanity, on feelings, and on closest affections. Until it transfigures them into lifeless objects.
Adam is a Christian Arab living in Nazareth - member of a minority that is disappearing in the Holy Land and the Middle East. His wife Lamia is strong, beautiful and progressive and directs a foundation for women's rights. When Adam learns that Lamia is pregnant and her father becomes seriously ill, he does a reveiw of his own life and realizes that he has not achieved much. Despite all his business realtions and ideas so far failed, he tries one last great undertaking. What could be better to sell in the Holy Land than the very air that the Virgin Mary breathed during her annunciation?
Vlasta is a home care nurse in a small town in Moravia. She is a generous and pragmatic woman and has dedicated her whole life to her husband, her daughter and her patients. She has always put the needs of others before his own, firmly believing in traditional medicine and the expertise of doctors. One day she discovers to be sick and she tries to make a change in her life. Forced to abandon all certainties, she understands that her huge altruistic attitude can harm her.
Sotto gli sguardi assenti dei passanti un senzatetto di Philadelphia cerca di mostrare al mondo l'unica cosa che gli appartiene.
