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Story of a Love Affair

Cronaca di un amore

1950

Michelangelo Antonioni

Lucía Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Franco Fabrizi ...

6.8

895

Drama. Romance Carloni, a middle-aged detective gets a new mission from his boss: to find out as much as he can about the past of a beautiful young woman called Paola. The orderer is her husband, a wealthy upper-class managing director who has been married to Paola for only a year. The director gets jealous after finding a couple of old photographs of his wife and he wants to find out if she still meets one of her old fiancés.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A stylish study of wealth, ennui, guilt and fear - with an exceptional central performance by Lucia Bosé (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Antonioni captures their passion with architectural precision; he presses his lovers into hard-edged corporate and domestic spaces"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The trouble with the film is not that [the characters'] problems are mini. To paraphrase Claude Chabrol, there are no small problems, only small films"
		Dan Callahan Slant	"The unsurpassed beauty of Antonioni’s visual art lifts his two-penny story and hollow people into the exalted realm of the senses (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Haunting (...) A remarkable formal effort"

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