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RED DESERT Dailies

Red Desert • 28m

These uncut and unfinished dailies from RED DESERT show the precision of Antonioni’s framing and direction of actors. Recent acquisitions of the Cineteca di Bologna, they are presented here as discovered—in both black and white and color, and without audio.

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