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"Antoniennui" was the phrase that waggish critics used
in the 1960s to describe Michelangelo Antonioni's penchant for
slow-paced, brooding, nearly plotless features about the pain
of alienation in modern life. A one-time critic dismissed from
Mussolini's official film magazine over political disagreements,
Antonioni found work as a screenwriter and documentarist. Steeped
in painting and architectural theory, he rejected the neorealist
school of postwar filmmaking in Italy, and developed his own moody,
formal style. After a lengthy obscurity, he gained international
acclaim with the 1960 L'Avventura and released one masterpiece
after another that decade. His output began slowing in the '70s,
and he survived a stroke in 1985 to direct occasionally afterward.
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