The second film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “trilogy of alienation” is a portrait of lives disconnected from feeling or passion in the high society of Milan.
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‘Adua and Her Friends’ on Amazon Prime Video
Adua and Her Friends (Italy, 1960) are prostitutes from a Rome brothel attempting to take charge of their own lives after their place is shut down in the aftermath of Italy’s Merlin Law, which ended legalized prostitution in 1958. Adua (Simone Signoret), a veteran of the life, has a plan to open a restaurant as […]
‘The 10th Victim’ – Reality TV is a killer on Amazon Prime
Before The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale, before The Running Man, there was Elio Petri’s The 10th Victim (1965), the original Survivor set in a near future of unlikely fashions and pop-art stylings, where comic books are the literature of the day, murder games have become the dominant form of media entertainment, and war has […]