Story of a Love Affair / Cronaca di un amore
Italy, 98' , 1950

Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Script: Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Daniele D'Anza, Silvio Giovannetti, Francesco Maselli
Production company: Villani Film
Cinematography: Enzo Serafin
Editing: Eraldo Da Roma, Michelangelo Antonioni
Music: Giovanni Fusco
Cast: Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bose, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky

Format: 35 mm, b/w
Running time: 98'

Synopsis
The first narrative feature by Italian avant-garde director Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1950 with modest success, exhibits the interest in themes of infidelity and the shifting tides of relationships that would haunt all of his films that followed. Paola is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guid, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion, Antonioni's noir gem won the 1951 Silver Ribbon at the Italian Journalists Awards.

Awards
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1951
Silver Ribbon / Best Original Score
Special Silver Ribbon

Directors Biography
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna in 1912. Upon graduation from the University of Bologna with a degree in economics, he started writing for the local Ferrara newspaper Il Corriere Padano in 1935 as a film journalist. In 1940, Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for Cinema, the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini. Later that year he enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to study film technique. In 1942, he co-wrote Un pilota ritorna, together with Roberto Rossellini and worked as assistant director on Enrico Fulchignoni's I due Foscari. Antonioni started shooting short films in the 1940s. His first full-length feature film is Cronaca di un amore (1950). Among his major films are Le amiche (1955; The Girlfriends), L'avventura (1960; The Adventure), L'eclisse (1962; The Eclipse), and Blow-up (1966). He died in 2007., in Rome.

Location and screening schedule: &TD Cinema, Friday, October 26th at 21.00