STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR

Description

Antonioni is one of the most influential filmmakers of all times, indeed critics revere him as the ‘creator’ of Modern Cinema. His STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR, aka Cronaca di un Amore, is his first feature film, a Noir thriller with sensual themes of yearning and jealousy. It is considered a masterpiece by Scorsese among others.

Paola (Lucia Bosè) is a strikingly beautiful young woman married to a rich older industrialist who decides to have her past investigated. The detective’s enquiry reaches Paola’s former lover, Guido, prompting him to seek her after seven years, and they reignite their passion. Antonioni, who defined cool modernism on screen, chronicles the love affair, observing without judgement. His ground-breaking techniques – such as the long one-take sequence, later adopted by cinema greats – and scintillating B&W photography are presented here in HD for the 1st time, from a painstaking 2K restoration, finally doing justice to the director’s masterpiece.

Story of a Love Affair Release Notes:
First time ever Blu-Ray worldwide.
One of the first films chosen to be restored in HD. It was supervised by principal Italian cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, Fellini’s cinematographer (also THE LEOPARD, ALL THAT JAZZ, Gillian’s BARON MUNCHAUSEN…)

5 STARS ON THE GUARDIAN!

Seventy years on, Michelangelo Antonioni’s brilliant debut movie is now rereleased: a sleazy, seedy neo-realist noir set in postwar Milan, all about shame, desire, self-hate and furtive surveillance. Judging by this, Antonioni could have had a career like Chabrol’s, or Hitchcock’s. Instead, after a run of conventional (and expertly made) movies, Antonioni released L’Avventura in 1960, switching up to the languorous, complex, enigmatic style that made him internationally famous, and it became possible in retrospect to separate his career into the pre- and post-Avventura phases.

Story of a Love Affair is a riveting, taut drama – though with intriguing hints of the stasis and ennui that were to come.

Read the full review here.