Michelangelo Antonioni
Date of Birth:
29 September 1912, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Date of Death:
30 July 2007, Rome, Italy
Height:
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Mini Biography:
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in 1912 into a middle-class family and grew up in bourgeois surroundings of the Italian province. In Bologna he studied economics and commerce while he painted and also wrote criticism for a local newspaper. In 1939 he went to Rome and worked for the journal "Cinema" studying directorship at the School of Cinema. As he was indebted to neorealism his films reflect his bourgeois roots like in his first movie Story of a Love Affair (1950) or The Lady Without Camelias (1953) or The Girlfriends (1955). His biggest success was the trilogy L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), and Eclipse (1962), with which he won several prizes. This success allowed him to go abroad and to work on international scale in English: e.g. Blow-Up (1966) in London and Zabriskie Point (1970) in the USA as well as The Passenger (1975). A stroke in 1985 severely inhibited his productivity until his death in 2007.
Spouse:
Enrica Antonioni (1986 - 30 July 2007) (his death)
Letizia Balboni (1942 - ?)
Coração Vagabundo 
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What was simply supposed to be just another tour for the release of a new record ended presenting Caetano Veloso with a tough series of challenges. "Errante Navegante" (Wandering Heart) intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo, New York to Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in English. It takes considerably more than a week-long series of shows at Carnegie Hall, accolades in the New York Times, or the admiration of friends like Pedro Almodóvar, David Byrne and Michelangelo Antonioni to make Caetano feel comfortable outside of Brazil. "Wandering Heart" is an enjoyable journey in search of answers to a series of questions that reveal Caetano in unprecedented intimacy.
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