Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni’s first
English-language feature follows a trendy
fashion photographer (David Hemmings) in
mod-era London who may have inadvertently
photographed a murder. Both an erotic thriller
(glamorous stars like Vanessa Redgrave,
Sarah Miles, and Jane Birkin are never too far
away) and a portrait of the joyless decadence,
casual sex, and ennui of life in London in the
1960s, this artful, Oscar-nominated cinematic
masterpiece unfolds as a captivating spectacle
of sights and sounds. As much about a
lonely man as it is about the essential nature
of imagery, this true turning point in the history
of cinema helped pave the way for many
of the great films of the late 1960s and 1970s.