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L'assoluto naturale (1969)

L'assoluto naturale poster
Directed by
Mauro Bolognini
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
2.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A free-spirited woman and a gloomy photographer begin a puzzling affair. Their story unfolds in cold modern rooms and empty roads, with the camera work giving everything a strange, distant beauty.

moodyenigmaticstylishslow-burnalienatingvisually starkmelancholicdetached

What happens

L'assoluto naturale (internationally released as He and She and She and He) is a 1969 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. The plot focuses on a mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman (Koscina) and a dour photographer (Harvey), shot in strange modernist interiors and abstract "sports car on a highway to nowhere" exteriors. The work of cinematographer Ennio Guarnieri in this film has been referred to as "one of the cornerstones of Italian photography in the sixties". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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