Cronaca di un amore
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Black-and-white, Crime Fiction, Romance Film, World cinema, Crime Drama, Drama
Year: 1950
Country: Italy
Language: Italian Language
Starring: Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Franco Fabrizi, Lucia Bosé, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky, Rosi Mirafiore, Rubi D'Alma, Anita Farra, Carlo Gazzabini, Nardo Rimediotti
Cronaca di un amore (released as Chronicle of a Love in the UK, and Story of a Love Affair in the USA) is a 1950 Italian black-and-white drama film and the first full length feature film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It stars Lucia Bosé, then 19-year old Miss Italy 1947 and a flame of Antonioni of that time. 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 Cronaca di un amore, the camera pans the same street corner in Ferrara, the director's native city, that appears in Antonioni's Par-delà les nuages 45 years later.
The core of the story is apparently offered by the protagonists' feelings of guilt and responsibility for two ambiguous deaths. Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi), wealthy Milan industrialist and jealous husband, becomes interested in his young and beautiful wife's shady past and hires a detective. At the same time his wife, Paola Molon (Lucia Bosè), native of Ferrara, meets her former lover Guido (Massimo Girotti),
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