Cronaca Di Un Amore (1950) Special Edition
Story of a Love Affair
A Film by Michelangelo Antonioni
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 01:38:27 | 5% Recovery | 5.82 Gb + 7.58 GB
Languages Available: Italian, English Dolby Digital 2.0 | Subtitle: English
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Making of, Restoring a Masterpiece, Feauturette, Trailer, Interviews
Genre: Drama | 2 Wins
Story of a Love Affair
A Film by Michelangelo Antonioni
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x480 | 01:38:27 | 5% Recovery | 5.82 Gb + 7.58 GB
Languages Available: Italian, English Dolby Digital 2.0 | Subtitle: English
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Making of, Restoring a Masterpiece, Feauturette, Trailer, Interviews
Genre: Drama | 2 Wins
Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido (Massimo Girotti), 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.
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At a detective agency in Milan, Carloni (Gino Rossi) is looking through photographs of an attractive young woman, Paola Molon Fontana (Lucia Bosè), given to the agency by her wealthy industrialist husband, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi). The couple were married seven years ago, shortly after meeting each other. Fontana's recent discovery of these old photos have aroused his suspicion, and Carloni is hired to uncover whatever he can about Paola's life before her marriage.
Carloni travels to the town of Ferrara, where Paola spent much of her youth. The detective soon discovers that she was best friends with two girls in town. He goes to the apartment of one of her friends, Matilde (Vittoria Mondello), and learns from her husband that Paola and Matilde's friend Giovanna Carlini died in a tragic elevator shaft fall a few days before she was to be married to Guido Garroni, a local boy with whom Paola had also been involved. When the sullen Matilde arrives home, she refuses to cooperate with Carloni. After the detective leaves, Matilde writes a letter to Guido, alerting him that a suspicious man is investigating Paola's past.
Back in Milan, as Paola exits the La Scala opera house dressed in a white fur coat with her husband and friends, she is startled to see Guido (Massimo Girotti) standing across the street. Later that night, she receives a phone call from him and they agree to meet the following day. At Idroscalo lake, Guido, who is now a struggling car dealer, shares Matilde's letter with Paola. The thought that someone is digging into their past frightens Paola, making her think that perhaps Matilde is trying to extort money from her. With their former attraction rekindled, the two agree to meet again.
Meanwhile, Carloni's investigation intensifies, as he finds out more about the mysterious accident in the elevator shaft, Paola's sudden disappearance, and Guido's role in all this. He learns from Giovanna's maid that Paola and Guido were with Giovanna when she fell to her death, and that they did not cry out or rush to her side to see if she was still alive. He also learns that Paola left Ferrara two days after the accident and met her future husband shortly thereafter in Milan—never telling him about her friend's death.
In the coming days, Paola and Guido's once-casual reunion escalates into a full-blown passionate affair played out in rented rooms. To help Guido earn money, Paola arranges for him to be the middleman in a car sale that doesn't work out. As their affair progresses, Paola's frustration with her loveless marriage leads her to suggest to Guido that her husband's death would benefit both of them. At first Guido is repulsed by the suggestion, but is influenced by Paola's emotional manipulation. Later they meet on a bridge over a desolate canal that Fontana crosses on his way home.
Guido plans to shoot him as he approaches the bridge. Paola pretends to have second thoughts, accusing Guido of being responsible for Giovanna's death—he saw the elevator door open and did not warn her. Guido reminds her that she too did nothing to warn her friend, and that they will both be responsible for this death as well.
Story of a Love Affair (Italian: Cronaca di un amore) is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Massimo Girotti and Lucia Bosè. Despite some neorealist background, the film was not fully compliant with the contemporary Italian neorealist style both in its story and image, featuring upper-class characters portrayed by professional actors. Ferdinando Sarmi was, however, a fashion designer rather than a professional actor. In the film, the camera pans the same street corner in Ferrara, the director's native city, that appears in his film Par-delà les nuages forty-five years later. In 1951 the film won the Nastro d'Argento Silver Ribbon Award for Best Original Score (Giovanni Fusco) and the Special Silver Ribbon (Michelangelo Antonioni) for human and stylistic values. Story of a Love Affair was Antonioni's first full length feature film.
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• Making of
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• Feauturette
• Trailer
• Identification of a Masterpiece
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ORIGINAL TITLE: Cronaca di un Amore
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR: Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Daniele D'Anza, Piero Tellini, Silvio Giovaninetti, Francesco Maselli
ACTORS:
Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosé, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky, Ferdinando Sarmi, Franco Fabrizi, Victoria Mondello, Rosi Mirafiore, Rubi D'Alma, Renato Burrini, Nardo Rimediotti, Anita Farra Carlo Gazzopini, Vittorio Manfrino
Cast and Crew
PHOTOGRAPHY: Enzo Serafin, Aldo Scavarda
ASSEMBLY: Eraldo Da Roma
MUSIC: John Fusco
PRODUCTION AND STEFANO FRANCO VILLANI CARETTA (TORINO), FINCINE (ROME)
DISTRIBUTION: FINCINE - Sanpaolo AUDIOVISUAL
COUNTRY: Italy 1950
DURATION: 110 Min
SIZE: B / W
NOTES:
- FIRST FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR. FILMED IN TURIN. - SILVER RIBBON FOR MUSIC AND THE DIRECTOR SPECIAL AWARD "FOR HUMAN VALUES AND STYLES." - PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTOR AT THE FESTIVAL OF PUNTA DEL ESTE (1951.) - FILM RESTORED IN 2004 BY THE ASSOCIATION PHILIP MORRIS FILM PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH STUDIOS CINECITTÀ, FOUNDATION CENTER OF EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - FILM LIBRARY NATIONAL SURF FILM. DIRECTOR OF RESTORATION: Giuseppe Rotunno. THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE WAS GONE LOST IN 1989 DURING A FIRE.
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