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Il Grido

1957 · 1h 50m · N/A Drama
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

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80%
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Fresh

A bleak and desolate film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni with an eye to the emotive powers of the barren landscape.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

The camera's spare, stunning compositions and the tone of loss and disaffection anticipate Antonioni's later, brilliant explorations of bourgeois anomie.

Leslie Camhi, Village Voice
Fresh

A fairly lucid story that puts no undue strain on a viewer's imagination or intellect.

A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Fresh

If Antonioni's assuredness isn't yet in place, Il Grido remains a key transitional work, with remarkable photography, fluid camerawork, and a typically unforgettable finale ranking among its most notable virtues.

Keith Phipps, AV Club

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