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Cronaca di un Amore (1950)

Drama | 98 minutes
3,14 67 votes

Genre: Drama / Crime

Duration: 98 minuten

Alternative title: Story of a Love Affair

Country: Italy

Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni

Stars: Lucía Bosé, Massimo Girotti and Gino Rossi

IMDb score: 7,1 (3.778)

Releasedate: 1 October 1950

Cronaca di un Amore plot

Carloni (Gino Rossi), a middle-aged detective, receives a new assignment from a client: to uncover as much as possible about the past of a beautiful young woman named Paola (Lucia Bosé). The client is a wealthy director who has been married to her for a year now. He becomes jealous when he finds a pile of old photos of his wife. He wants to make sure she's still meeting the ex-lovers.

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Which in the beginning is still a variation on classic American noirs such as Double indemnity and The postman always rings twice (or Visconti's even earlier Ossessione, even though with Massimo Girotti), including a mysterious death in the past, a private detective who is on to something (but what?), and a young woman who has worked her way up but can't shake her past, develops increasingly turns into a kind of fateful drama in which the two main characters fight against temptation, against each other's murderous impulses, against the social and therefore financial gap that separates them, and against the shadow of the dead Giovanna that hangs over both of them. It's nice how Fontana brings disaster on himself: if he had not been so suspicious, he would never have driven Paola into Guido's arms again - otherwise her restlessness and her aversion to the emptiness of her new life would have taken her for another man. to succumb? In his debut film, Antonioni cleverly uses all the melodramatic possibilities of the rather exciting plot to explore characters and environments, but above all it shows his superb eye for abandoned streets, buildings, canals, trees and rain puddles. Regardless of its historical importance (and regardless of its value as a finger exercise for or preliminary study of, for example, the later trilogy), a beautiful film that gets under your skin, not least because Lucia Bosé is such an unworldly beautiful appearance.

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Bobbejaantje

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Is inspired by Ossessione / The Postman Always Rings Twice based on the novel by James M. Cain, but as far as I am concerned, this film is next level compared to both the films and the book. The core idea is realistically enlarged and spread in various layers, including the side characters, everyone seems to be entangled in a web of intrigue. Just like in film noir, the main characters are haunted by their past, both figuratively - the fears they face - and physically because they are shadowed. Obsession and paranoia are the driving forces of all the characters, and just like in the better film noir, it is difficult to draw a line between good and evil. On the surface, Massimo Girotti (who also plays the leading role in Ossessione) and Lucia Bosé are in the wrong camp, although ultimately they can at most be accused of negligence and not of active murder. The person who commissioned the investigation, Ferdinando Sarmi, and the detective agency, on the other hand, seem to be in the camp of the good guys, but are in fact only driven by paranoid jealousy and the pursuit of profit, respectively.
From start to finish I was immersed in the sultry story, with a tight pace that never slackens for a moment and is well directed. Not intended as a criticism, but otherwise I would have liked to see this film in a Fritz Lang version, with long shadows and low camera angles.
Ultimately, this film is a hit for me thanks to the beautifully written screenplay, excellent acting and exemplary direction. And then the soundtrack in which chamber music alternates with dissonant tones belching piano and saxophone - yum.

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A sad film about two people who have found themselves in an unbearable psychological situation and are, as it were, consumed by many doubts and uncertainties.

The femme-fatale story rears its head for a moment, but that is not it and the question of what is really going on in the minds of this man and woman deserves full attention.

Antonioni underlines the sadness of his white-black film with clever imagery, of the sharply drawn main characters but also of the desolation of the exterior shots.

Strong performances.

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