This Cronaca di um amore, which in Portuguese was called Escândalo de amor, without any scandal in the film, is the first feature film signed by Michelangelo Antonioni, dating from 1950. Before it, he had only made short films.
It features the fetish actress from his first films, Lucia Bosé, always beautiful, magnificent, in the splendor of her nineteen years, charismatic, and a script that draws inspiration from American film noir, following the fashion of the time.
But in Antonioni's hands, film noir becomes a psychological drama. The characters are viscerally capable of anything, but they have remorse, and the inevitable conclusion of the film is that it is impossible to build anything on top of remorse, even when guilt does not exist, or arises from mere omission.
A reference also to the magnificent soundtrack by Giovanni Fusco, played on the piano by Armando Renzi and on the saxophone by Marcel Mule. Mysterious, tense, minimal, it contributes enormously to the dramatic density of the film.
An auspicious debut from one of the most important directors of his generation.
It features the fetish actress from his first films, Lucia Bosé, always beautiful, magnificent, in the splendor of her nineteen years, charismatic, and a script that draws inspiration from American film noir, following the fashion of the time.
But in Antonioni's hands, film noir becomes a psychological drama. The characters are viscerally capable of anything, but they have remorse, and the inevitable conclusion of the film is that it is impossible to build anything on top of remorse, even when guilt does not exist, or arises from mere omission.
A reference also to the magnificent soundtrack by Giovanni Fusco, played on the piano by Armando Renzi and on the saxophone by Marcel Mule. Mysterious, tense, minimal, it contributes enormously to the dramatic density of the film.
An auspicious debut from one of the most important directors of his generation.