Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
THE VANQUISHED
I vinti
Synopsis
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths murderers. A group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money, a university student’s involved in smuggling cigarettes and a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs and tries to sell his story to the press.
Synopsis
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths murderers. A group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money, a university student’s involved in smuggling cigarettes and a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs and tries to sell his story to the press.
Our take
No one does murder like Antonioni! Challenging the accepted rules of film storytelling, this early triumph by cinema’s poet of modern angst foreshadows Blow-Up and is an excellent discovery in its own right. You can feel a rumble—the cinematic revolution of the 1960s was waiting to begin!