Chicago – “Framing a shot?” asks Ida (Christine Boisson), the latest photogenic lover of Italian filmmaker Niccolò (Tomas Milian), in Michelangelo Antonioni’s hypnotic 1982 effort, “Identification of a Woman.” Like Guidio, the hero of Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece, “8 1/2,” Niccolò has the desire to create but has no story to tell, just “an idea of the female form” that perpetually haunts his imagination.
Regardless of his efforts to move on, Niccolò’s past threatens to consume him. The alarm systems left by his paranoid ex-wife are still present in his apartment, forcing him to dodge cameras and sirens while entering his own residence. This sequence takes place at the top of the picture, and is rather amusing but also terribly sad. The same could be said about much of what follows in this voyeuristic meditation on sexual and artistic obsession.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Moviegoers frustrated with Antonioni’s enigmatic explorations of ennui among...
Regardless of his efforts to move on, Niccolò’s past threatens to consume him. The alarm systems left by his paranoid ex-wife are still present in his apartment, forcing him to dodge cameras and sirens while entering his own residence. This sequence takes place at the top of the picture, and is rather amusing but also terribly sad. The same could be said about much of what follows in this voyeuristic meditation on sexual and artistic obsession.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Moviegoers frustrated with Antonioni’s enigmatic explorations of ennui among...
- 11/8/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Anonymous - Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis
In Time - Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy
Puss in Boots - Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis
The Rum Diary - Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart
Movie of the Week
The Rum Diary
The Stars: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart
The Plot: American journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the ex-patriots who live there.
The Buzz: Where to begin? Have you seen the trailer? There’s a lot to digest in there.
In all honesty, I’d be a lot more excited than I am, (presently my excito-meter is at about a 6/10) if I’d never caught wind of the many negative rumblings about this film (I have a close...
Anonymous - Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis
In Time - Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy
Puss in Boots - Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis
The Rum Diary - Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart
Movie of the Week
The Rum Diary
The Stars: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart
The Plot: American journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the ex-patriots who live there.
The Buzz: Where to begin? Have you seen the trailer? There’s a lot to digest in there.
In all honesty, I’d be a lot more excited than I am, (presently my excito-meter is at about a 6/10) if I’d never caught wind of the many negative rumblings about this film (I have a close...
- 10/26/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
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