Janus Films: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido
HomeJanus Films: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido
Posted October 21, 2024 07:53 PM by Webmaster
Janus Films has provided a promotional trailer for the recent 4K restoration of Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido a.k.a. The Cry (1957), starring Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Steve Cochran, and Gabriella Pallotta. The new restoration will begin screening in select theaters across the nation on November 8.
Description: Antonioni's early, neorealism-inspired work and his hallmark stories of existential rootlessness Il Grido centers on Aldo (Steve Cochran), a sugar-refinery worker in the Po Valley. When Irma (Alida Valli), his lover of seven years, learns that her estranged husband has died abroad, Aldo hopes ey can finally marry. These plans are ruined, however, when Irma declares she's fallen in love with another man. Shocked and demoralized, Aldo leaves town with his daughter, Rosina (Mirna Girardi), and attempts to woo an old girlfriend (Betsy Blair), only to find himself rebuffed. As Aldo continues to drift through the Po's small villages, his prospects dwindle and his connections with other women—including a gas-station owner (Dorian Gray) and a sex worker (Lyn Shaw)—fizzle out into alienation and despair.
Strikingly composed and boldly using environment to convey character—like Antonioni's later classics—Il Grido reveals a director in the process of discovering his artistic signature and applying it to this most personal of statements about the human condition.
Description: Antonioni's early, neorealism-inspired work and his hallmark stories of existential rootlessness Il Grido centers on Aldo (Steve Cochran), a sugar-refinery worker in the Po Valley. When Irma (Alida Valli), his lover of seven years, learns that her estranged husband has died abroad, Aldo hopes ey can finally marry. These plans are ruined, however, when Irma declares she's fallen in love with another man. Shocked and demoralized, Aldo leaves town with his daughter, Rosina (Mirna Girardi), and attempts to woo an old girlfriend (Betsy Blair), only to find himself rebuffed. As Aldo continues to drift through the Po's small villages, his prospects dwindle and his connections with other women—including a gas-station owner (Dorian Gray) and a sex worker (Lyn Shaw)—fizzle out into alienation and despair.
Strikingly composed and boldly using environment to convey character—like Antonioni's later classics—Il Grido reveals a director in the process of discovering his artistic signature and applying it to this most personal of statements about the human condition.
