Nearly 60 years ago, Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni found an ideal antagonist in Modernism. The stone-and-mortar permanence of the classical was overtaken and erased by the glass-walled ephemerality of the modern, and characters in films like L’Avventura and La Notte find their post-war spiritual malaise framed and exacerbated by the changing landscape.
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