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And Antonioni created Architecture
I always like the way that Antonioni used architecture to construct his films. I think he created a whole new subgenre with an particular attention on design that I’ve never seen before. The slow pace of filming some building, the attention on some details on walls or even construction site make Antonioni’s movies specials.
Those buildings are a vector of sentiment and emotion. Per example, to represent the loss of feeling and the alienation of the characters, Antonioni chose an abandoned but seemly modern village in l’Avventura, or the almost dystopian EUR neighborhood in l’Eclisse.
It almost seems that the buildings were a character of there own in each movies, there to support Antonioni script and capture the essence of the 60’s in Europe.