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The 1964 Italian film that speaks to the dread of climate change
02/12/2022 08:16 AM | Click to read full article
The opening shot of the late Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, Red Desert, is a still shot of the tip of a petrochemical plant unleashing flames and smoke in rapid succession, like a gun firing into the sky. Antonioni’s Red Desert understands the human feelings and day-to-day existential crisis under climate change and capitalism better than any other recent movie.
