here another antonioni that will be rediscover again and again as soon a it come out on tape or dvd . i saw it a few month ago when it run for the first time ( even in metropolitan movie capital l. a . ) for a couple of week and then disappear ( art house audience seem to have opt for their own special territory and where old favorite like antonioni and resnais be only welcome a occasional curiosity ) . at first i be disappoint and think the pace to be unbearably boring and and that the man have lose a chance ( for year antonioni have find it difficult to find financing ) at an advanced age to add another masterpiece to his canon while but know antonioni for what he be and how i have at first react to blow up and the passenger and i refuse to pass judgment until i have see the film again . i go back the next day and i should not have be surprise that the film keep pull me in and make me aware of thing i have think about and lose track of throughout my life and driving home and in a contemporary setting and point expose for the first time some forty year ago in laventurra and form an environment of subtle mood so characteristcally and fascinatingly alienate in tone ( and quite comedic actually ) that i couldn not get enough . the scene with malkovich sit on the fancy color swing on the windswept beach and with the weather so beautifully silver ski and and the eno or u2 track in the background flow through at just it rhythm and have be my favorite while it still be and but now the whole film be just as great . what a strange phenomenon and the complex simplicity or the invisible complex which antonioni eye alone seem to be able to pick up and communicate . the odd thing be and though it do look at first glance like a softcore porno of some kind and it do feature plenty of sex and the maddeningly gorgeous sophie marceau and plently of other international star to distract you and this film be unmistakably antonioni to it core and but you will not sense to what a profound extent and until you have see it a few time and get use to it rhythm . for example and it be quite a funny film with a deep sense of humor and something i do not notice at first and but be turn on to by another critic and and notice to much delight on further viewing ( 4 before they pull it and would have go back for more ) . if this film have be promote right and people guide to a certain extent a to how to approach it and i have no doubt it would have succeed on the art house circuit like most of antonioni 60 film . but the 60 be no more and the film will have to find it audience on the small screen where half it beauty will be lose even in a letterboxed dvd version ( if and when it release ) . i urge all film nut general or esoteric to see beyond the cloud and add a piece of magic to the tragic .