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...follows history as far as it goes, then dives outward into the freedom of his own imagination. In his play, set on the island of Lesbos in 650 B.C., she is the wife of Kreon, a rich landowner who wishes to become the most powerful economic force in the Aeolian world by recovering a set of deeds from his villa in the old city of Eresos, which has disappeared beneath the sea in an earthquake. He wants to use his power to finance the dictatorship and earth-conquering ambitions of Pit-takos, a general who returns victorious from a siege...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...
...have tried to achieve an exciting design in architecture as well as allowing the birds as much light and freedom as possible." London critics looked at a model of the angular, chichi aviary and formed their own opinions. Among them: "An attempt to disprove some geometric theorem," "An Aeolian harp gone awry." Said the Guardian: "The idea of a bird in a gilded cage occurred to many...
Part One of the three confluent but contrasting parts of L'Avventura (The Adventure) is set on one of the Aeolian Isles, crests of a vast sunken crater in the Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct. The walking dead are idle-rich Italians, members of a yachting party, who lie sunning like lizards on the lava shelves. Anna (Lea Massari), the vivid brunette, is a restless little disperata who finds her life empty and is sick of filling it with sex. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna...