The high priestess of frosty sensuality
posted by bill at 5:11 AM
Friday, July 29, 2005
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Arthur C. Danto
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Arthur C. Danto
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4 Comments:
Oh Lord don't get me started on Ms. Vitti (and it's not just because I have an Italian ex-wife who shared her amazingly mercurial, turn-on-a-dime emotional palette, I was in love with her ever since I saw L'Avventura as a teen), I'll just note this: while some actresses are totally Of Their Era (Crawford and Davis come to mind), Vitti transcends. I watched the Criterion L'Eclisse not long ago and was struck by how totally, completely contemporary she seemed to be, in every gesture, attitude and expression...
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I'm less taken with Vitti as a beauty or personality per se than how she fits into the framework of Antonioni's cinematic genius. Her performance in L'Avventura is superb, but in L'Eclisse it's remarkable, I think because there's less film to hang it on, and so its lyricism is utterly essential. In The Red Desert she again is superb, but the real star in that work is Antonioni's formal achievement, his compositions, his use of color, the poetry of imagery that all provoke astonishment. I sometimes think another actress could have played Vitti's role in this movie, though maybe not as well. Still, I give her props for what she was able to achieve, before she found herself in . Watching these films again, this time on DVD, I can see why Sontag's and others' enthusiasm for Antonioni was so great. Vitti was central to that.
Oops, that didn't turn out quite right. It should have read The bit about Sontag shouldn't have been hyperlinked....
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