thinkingimages: Superstitions: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Gerardo Guerrieri. Docu
thinkingimages: Superstitions: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Gerardo Guerrieri. Documentary about superstitious traditions in rural Southern Italy.In his earliest films of the 1940s and ’50s—”intense” and “sympathetic” documentary portraits of Roman street cleaners and barge workers along the Po River, superstitious rituals in rural southern Italy and a vertiginous cable-car ride over the Dolomites—Antonioni invented his “own brand of neorealism,” experimenting with tracks and pans, extreme long shots, and “poetically free” montage in order to transcend generic types. All films written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and in Italian with English subtitles. -- source link