Michelangelo Antonioni & La Notte
…Everyone agrees that Antonioni is a film genius, an artist who has influenced filmmakers and the contemporary
cinema around the world. To me, he is the Maestro of contemporary cinema. As I went back over the film in my mind, I began to
understand that it worked on two different levels. One level is the ordinary, visual surface level, which portrayed those seemingly
ordinary events that make up our day to day existence. The other level, deeper and far richer, occurs below the surface details,
and deals with the emotional action and interaction between the two main characters. It was this second level, the emotional state
that revealed the true nature of what the characters are thinking and feeling. In that regards, I saw that what was left unsaid
became far more important that what was said…
…At the first viewing of La Notte, I only sensed this emotional state; I had no words to express it, only these
vague, lingering images. Seeing it a second time, I felt that maybe Antonioni had uncovered some kind of new visual language, and
used his images to create an emotional response, something felt, not spoken. Later, I would discover this subterranean emotional
level would be known as subtext, something I had known and practiced during my acting career…
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