I must preface this review by saying that I am a massive fan of Antonioni, not only his early (and more popular) works but also the latter films (Zabriskie Point and to a lesser extent Identification of a Woman).
First, the positives: the film starts out promising, with some nice camera and compositional work at the beginning. Also Antonioni's eye for casting beautiful, interesting women is still perfectly intact.
Now for the bad: the script is hard to stomach, and it also doesn't help that the acting is barely acceptable as well. The music is god-awful; I remember another reviewer comparing it to soft porn, and I think that is a slap in the face to that poor genre.
All in all, it's worth viewing if you want to say you've seen every Antonioni film, or you have a love for beautiful women - and in this case it might be better to watch part of the first segment, and then just fast forward to the nude scenes - but don't expect to be presented with the profound artistic statement that you've enjoyed in his other films.
First, the positives: the film starts out promising, with some nice camera and compositional work at the beginning. Also Antonioni's eye for casting beautiful, interesting women is still perfectly intact.
Now for the bad: the script is hard to stomach, and it also doesn't help that the acting is barely acceptable as well. The music is god-awful; I remember another reviewer comparing it to soft porn, and I think that is a slap in the face to that poor genre.
All in all, it's worth viewing if you want to say you've seen every Antonioni film, or you have a love for beautiful women - and in this case it might be better to watch part of the first segment, and then just fast forward to the nude scenes - but don't expect to be presented with the profound artistic statement that you've enjoyed in his other films.