Amazon.com Essentials:
This 1966 masterpiece by Michelangelo Antonioni (The
Passenger) is set in the heady atmosphere of Swinging London, and
stars David Hemmings as an unsmiling fashion photographer hooked on
ephemeral meaning attached to anything: art, sex, work, relationships,
drugs, events. When a real mystery falls into his lap, he probes the
evidence for some reliable truth, but finds it hard to reckon with.
Vanessa Redgrave plays an enigmatic woman whose desperation to cover
something up only seems like one more phenomenon in Hemmings's
disinterested purview. This is one of the key films of the decade, and
still an unsettling and lasting experience. --Tom Keogh
