“‘A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same.… This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.’ Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and L’Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality. Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, and interviews, The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema explores the director’s unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.”
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