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Il Grido (1957)

Il Grido (1957)
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The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this black-and-white drama from Michelangelo Antonioni. The worker lives with a married woman and their young daughter. One day, the woman learns that her legal spouse died. The refinery worker immediately proposes, but she spurns him in favor of another. Deeply depressed, the laborer begins to drift aimlessly across the northern wasteland with his daughter in tow. Along the way, he meets many people, including a woman from his past. Despite his many low-key adventures, he is unable to forget his daughter's mother and so returns to find that she lives in a new home with a new child. The story comes to its climax during a demonstration protesting the building of a U.S. airfield where the refinery stands. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Starring:
Steve CochranAlida Valli, (more)
Director(s):
Michelangelo Antonioni
Format(s):
DVD
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Synopsis of Il Grido

The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this black-and-white drama from Michelangelo Antonioni. The worker lives with a married woman and their young daughter. One day, the woman learns that her legal spouse died. The refinery worker immediately proposes, but she spurns him in favor of another. Deeply depressed, the laborer begins to drift aimlessly across the northern wasteland with his daughter in tow. Along the way, he meets many people, including a woman from his past. Despite his many low-key adventures, he is unable to forget his daughter's mother and so returns to find that she lives in a new home with a new child. The story comes to its climax during a demonstration protesting the building of a U.S. airfield where the refinery stands. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
115 mins

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Director(s):
Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer(s):
Ennio de ConciniElio BartoliniMichelangelo Antonioni
Producer(s):
Franco Cancellieri
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Donald K.

Great movie. Reminded me of the finest work of early Fellini and DeSica. Great acting. If you like the work of the early Italian masters you will love this movie.

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Keith G.

Unique amongst the Antonioni films I have seen, in that it has a lower class and sympathetic lead character. A worker is rejected by his long time lover when he asks to marry her, and takes their shared 7 year old daughter and hits the road in response, meeting and struggling with various women along the way. A much more naturalistic and neo-realist film than other Antonioni films, interesting and moving, with a much clearer POV and story. Very well shot, although in a more subtle, less breathtaking way than his other work. But it does succumb to melodramatics at times, and the acting is OK, not great. There is also a touch of misogyny. But this is still an historically important work by a master, so worth checking out if Antonioni is of interest to you.

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