Il Gran Antonioni Se Ne Va

(Michelangelo Antonioni, courtesy of ANSA)

NEW YORK--(Italy Watch)--Known in the Stati Uniti for Blow-Up and L'Avventura, the Ferrara-born director Michelangelo Antonioni passed away yesterday evening in the city of his birth, calmly seated on an arm chair next to his wife. Antonioni was 95, and leaves behind a vast catalogue of films, many of which stressed his belief that actions and behavior -- not words, are integral to the essence of mankind. He leaves a blanket of silence in a country so dearly attached to cinema.

"La solitudine e' la mancanza di parole intorno a noi."

Michelangelo Antonioni

"Solitude is the lack of words around us."