"The film was not well received initially, but the critics turned the audience".
Is there something wrong with that? I mean, that´s what the critics are there for - to provide insight, to draw attention to things that might go unnoticed otherwise etc. Although, yeah, I guess there might have also been a short window of time, when it may have been kind of "hip" to buy into such material, all drenched in ennui and angst.
"Perhaps this film is a little too intellectual".
I dunno, it may be in a sense, but that´s not how I see it, necessarily. It´s more about the emotional affects it creates. Certainly not an easy film to digest though as it´s often taken even its big admirers multiple viewings to "get".
"I guess the problem with Italian films is they are too passionate".
You must be thinking of someone like Fellini; Antonioni is quite the opposite, all about numbness. There´s always a strongly muted quality to his work.
"La Notte, the second of Antonioni´s "Incommunicability Trilogy"".
That´s the one I liked the least from the said trilogy because it goes all too Bergmanian in the final 30 minutes with the long introspective discussions (no wonder it´s the only Antonioni movie Bergman liked - along with Blowup). As for L´Eclisse... I dare anyone to find a film of which last 10 minutes feel more completely suffocated. Definitely more like L´Avventura than La Notte.
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