Arquivo

A tribute to film maker Michelangelo Antonioni and his films as from vast material on file preserved by the RAI library, gathered from television and radio. The film is structured in chronological order and follows the steps of the director in the most important times of his life, from his first neo-realistic documentaries to the Oscar for his contribution to the history of cinema in 1993. Between these two extremes, we see him making his celebrated films, his encounter with censorship in The Vanquished, his disillusion after the preview of The Adventure, the Gold Palm for Blow-up, the American experience in Zabriskie Point, the stroke that made it impossible for him to work for many years and, finally, the long-awaited return in Beyond the Clouds. His film biography includes statements by Tonino Guerra, Monica Vitti, and Enrica Antonioni.