The first time we see La Notte’s two protagonists—a long-married couple, Giovanni and Lidia Pontano—they’re so distant from the camera as to seem insignificant. Even those who know that the movie ...

Michelangelo Antonioni was a cinematic cubist. Fragmenting time and space, the Italian master created a potent new language for storytelling, and in the process charted a topography of modern ennui.

This is the central segment of Michelangelo Antonioni's `alienation' trilogy that also comprises L'Avventura and L'Eclisse. Once again, the inability to communicate in a dehumanising society is the ...