Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · Starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Jane Birkin · Music Herbie Hancock
“Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all.”
DramaMysteryThriller
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
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A cool, detached exploration of perception and reality, wrapped in the stylish, ephemeral glamour of Swinging London. It feels like a dream slowly unraveling, leaving you with a profound sense of ambiguity and an unsettling question of what is truly seen versus what is real. An enigmatic, existential journey.
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