The Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni has passed away on Monday night, being at his home. He was to celebrate his 95 birthday anniversary only on the 29th of September, but it seems that the time and his age have not been willing to spare him.
Michelangelo Antonioni has depicted through his movies alienation and everything that this phenomenon involves and this has made him a symbol of the art-house cinema. His movies, such as “Blow-Up” and “L’Aventura” have started to be considered real cinematographic masterpieces.
Michelangelo Antonioni has been said by the film critics to have been able to help the post-war Italian film turning away from the Neorealist movement. Together with Federico Fellini, Antonioni has directed the Italian movie toward a personal cinema of feeling and imagination.
Antonioni, who always expressed distaste
for critics, was not one to incite viewers into reading too much into his work.
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say. And even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film. I never think ahead of the shot I'm going to make the following day because if I did, I'd only produce a bad imitation of the original image in my mind.
Although he has not directed more
than 25 movies in its entire career, Antonioni had been honored in 1995 by
"He was a maestro for my
generation, but also for younger directors," said Scorsese.