N.U. (film)

N.U. (film)
N.U.
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Produced by Vieri Bigazzi (production manager)
Music by Giovanni Fusco (music consultant)
Cinematography Giovanni Ventimiglia
Distributed by Lux Film (presented by)
Icet, Milan
Release date(s) 1948
Running time 11 min
Country Italy
Language Italian

N.U. (short for Nettezza urbana, Italian municipal cleansing service) is a short 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. The film examines a weekday morning of Italian janitors, captured at work on the streets of post-WWII Rome.

Although undoubtedly neorealistic in its style, this documentary does foreshadow some of Antonioni's own future trademarks, such as slow-moving camera that is enamoured with alienated and deserted urban landscapes and inanimate objects of architecture, nature, etc. and seemingly less than concerned with sweepers, washers and cleaners (almost indistinguishable from bums, and sometimes behaving much in the same way). The film's narration consists of barely several phrases; musically soundtrack alternates classical-like piano improvisations with jazzy pieces.

In 1948 N.U. won Antonioni Nastro d'Argento Best Documentary award.[1] So did his L'amorosa menzogna next year.

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

External links

v · d · eFilms directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
1950s
Story of a Love Affair (1950) • I Vinti (1952) • The Lady Without Camelias (1953) • "Attempted Suicide" [one of six segments comprising Love in the City (1953)] • Le Amiche (1955) • Il Grido (1957)
1960s
L'Avventura (1960) • La Notte (1961) • Eclipse (1962) • Red Desert (1964) • "The Screen Test" [one of three segments comprising The Three Faces (1965)] • Blowup (1966)
1970s
Zabriskie Point (1970) • Chung Kuo, Cina (1972) • The Passenger (1975)
1980s
1990s
2000s
"The Dangerous Thread of Things" [one of three segments comprising Eros (2004)]
shorts

N.U. (1948) • Lies of Love (1949)

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