MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI’S WORLD TOUR WRAPS UP AT LONDON’S BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE 

After the North American tour, inaugurated at MoMA in New York in December 2017, then continued in major US and Canadian institutions, including the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, the Seattle Internationl Film Festival (SIFF), the Castro Theater in San Francisco etc., the retrospective dedicated to Michelangelo Antonioni wrapped in London.

Organized by the British Film Institute and Istituto Luce Cinecittà, the Michelangelo Antonioni’s retrospective: Confronting the Modern World with Style (January 1 – February 27, 2019) offered the complete body of work of the Maestro: almost 60 years of art from the first documentary shorts – starting from Gente del Po (1947) to international masterpieces such as L’avventura (1960), L’eclisse (1962), Blow up (1966), Zabriskie Point (1970) and The Passenger (1975) which was also distributed in UK selected theatres.

Enrica Fico Antonioni, widow of the director, actress and assistant director of some of his important works, introduced the screenings of the new 4K restoration (by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale and Luce-Cinecittà) of Red Desert (1964) and Identification of a woman (1982) and animated the Q&A after the screening of Beyond the Clouds (1995).

The book “My Antonioni” (“Il mio Antonioni” in the Italian version), a personal journey into his cinematic vision, edited by Istituto Luce Cinecittà and Cineteca di Bologna, and supervised Carlo Di Carlo, life long collaborator and personal friend, was available for Antonioni’s film lovers.