Michelangelo Antonioni (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story author. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"— L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966)—Antonioni produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story
