Beautiful settings but a totally silly film.

It appears there’s been a lot of divisive opinions on this film. Antonioni’s words seem to have summed up my experience: “ the image enters through the eye to reach the brain, the spectator must operate on his own, almost creatively. One says seeing a film, reading a film. These words now are no longer suited. Today, it is the rapport between image and image which counts. So it is more right to say that today we must feel a film. Let’s put ourselves down in front of the screen no longer as men of culture (our culture is almost at the zero point anyway) but simply as men.”

Antonioni is way out of his depth trying to convey actual human emotion and connection. Should have stuck to what he does best: alienation and ennui.