Cronaca di un amore
Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.
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"Suffering is an inate response to life, this is one of the inescapable principles of existence. Antonioni saw far in the career that followed, farther than perhaps any director in cinema, but here he begins where it's proper, with life as a cycle of suffering, a seemingly random pattern of recurring time where we're denied what we most desire, happiness eludes us and our dreams and hopes are thwarted and frustrated. Too young to see a true reality, Antonioni nonetheless sees clearly the reality of illusions. First that the cycle we call life is not blindly, randomly spun, and that w..."
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Michelangelo Antonioni's feature film directorial debut. He wanted to cast Gene Tierney as Paola, but since he was an unknown European director he could not get her. Eventually he met then 19 year old Lucia Bosè, who had been Miss Italy 1947, while having lunch at fellow director Luchino Visconti's house. While initially skeptical over her maturity, Visconti convinced him to audition her.
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Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.