A Taste of Italian Film Genres/ Italian Romance: Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair) by Michelangelo Antonioni
Wednesday 2 April 2025 at 6.30pm
In Italian with English subtitles
Story of a Love Affair by Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Daniele D’Anza, Silvio Giovannetti. Cast: Lucia Bose’, Massimo Girotti, Gino Rossi. Drama / Romance/Crime 1950/1h 38min
Antonioni’s first feature film deals with a jealous husband looking into the past of his wife, via private investigator, which inadvertently gets her back together with an old lover, Guido, who unlike the rich wife, is a poor, barely scraping by car salesman. Although the two seem to be in love with each other, the difference in economic status and Paola’s marriage keep them apart. Also looming over them is the shadow of an “accident” they feel responsible for. The story was inspired by the James M Cain novel The Postman Always rings twice. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage‘s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.”
Special Nastro d’argento 1951 Michelangelo Antonioni, Nastro d’argento 1951 Best Music score – Giovanni Fusco
Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker
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Nick Walker has worked in the film industry, wrote film articles for The Guardian, he is a film lecturer, programmer and host of film salon events in London and Rochester. Nick has a Master’s Degree in Film Culture.