(aka 'The Vanquished' or 'Les Vaincus' or 'Youth and Perversion')
Italy / France 1953
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Commonly and to some extent unjustly written off as a failure, in part because of alterations imposed by censorship pressures that marred the first two episodes, Michelangelo Antonioni's daring second feature (1952), originally released in England as Youth and Perversion, consists of three separate sketches chronicling senseless murders committed by young men in France, Italy, and England--a contemporary existentialist document that could almost have been co-scripted by Albert Camus. What's most striking in all three parts of the film is the integration of incident with landscape without psychologizing--something of an Antonioni staple--and the last and best segment strikingly anticipates Blowup by offering not only a corpse found in a park but a tennis match glimpsed in the final shot. Jean-Pierre Mocky, later a New Wave director, plays one of the French youths in the first section, and Fay Compton plays the murder victim in the last. Excerpt from Jonathan Rosenbaum's review at The Chicago Reader located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: September 4th, 1953
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DVD Review: Minerva - Region 0 - PAL
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| Distribution | Minerva Classics - Region 0 - PAL | |
| Runtime | 1:48:40 | |
| Video | 1.33:1
Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 6.65 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s |
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| Audio | French / Italian / English (Dolby Digital 2.0), DUB: solely in Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0) | |
| Subtitles | English, Italian, None | |
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Release Information: Edition Details: • Uncut
version of Italian episode
• 32-page liner notes booklet (mostly in Italian) |
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Great find. Antonioni’s third film and one of his rarest... and it has English subtitles! Judging by the roughness of 'uncut' episode (included as an extra) I can safely assume this has had some restoration. The image is quite clean, dual-layered and progressive. It appears very adept with decent contrast and minimal noise. It is offered in the original (tri-language - French, Italian and English) in a 2.0 channel as well as an Italian DUB throughout. There are optional Italian or English subtitles. Menus are available in Italian and English. It is coded for region 0 in the PAL format. I'm extremely happy.
The DVD also gives some decent supplements. We are given the 'uncut' version of Italian episode (presented at the 1953 Venice Film Festival). It runs 29 minutes with the caveat that a few meters of the film were replaced with video and hence the limitation in quality. There is an interview with one of the writers, Turi Vasile running 12:52 and another with actor Franco Interlenghi running 10 minutes (with optional English subs for both). There are some DVDRom contents (Production notes etc.) accessible through your PC but they are all in Italian. There is a 32-page liner notes booklet with photos and one short essay in English (by Stefania Parigi). The film might be described as a matter-of-fact expose of juvenile delinquency. I think it is very much worth watching and the DVD supplements are very much appreciated. This would be for more than Antonioni completists - recommended! P.S. I just nabbed the original Belgium poster (above) on eBay for $10 - here's hoping some are jealous! :) |
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Recommended Books for Michelangelo Antonioni reading (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a
Director by Michelangelo Antonioni |
Antonioni, Or, the Surface of the World by Seymour Chatman |
My Time With Antonioni: The Diary of an
Extraordinary Experience by Wim Wenders, Michael Hofmann |
Antonioni: The Poet of Images by William Arrowsmith, Ted Perry |
Antonioni by Sam Rohdie |
The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
(Cambridge Film Classics) by Peter Brunette, Ray Carney |
Michelangelo Antonioni by Seymour Chatman, Paul Duncan |
L'Avventura (B.F.I. Film Classics) by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith |
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