Story of a Love Affair

Story of a Love Affair is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Lucia Bosè, Massimo Girotti, and Ferdinando Sarmi. Despite some neorealist background, the film was not fully compliant with the contemporary Italian neorealist style both in its story and image, featuring upper-class characters portrayed by professional actors. Ferdinando Sarmi was, however, a fashion designer rather than a professional actor. In the film, the camera pans the same street corner in Ferrara, the director's native city, that appears in his film Par-del les nuages forty-five years later. In 1951 the film won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon Award for Best Original Score and the Special Silver Ribbon for the human and stylistic values. Story of a Love Affair was Antonioni's first full length feature film.

Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

The feature film debut of future Italian cinema star Michelangelo Antonioni is quite conventional and straightforward as compared to his later works, which are generally regarded as masterpieces. Though not in that category, this film ranks as a very well-made melodrama that dares to also include exploration of the darkest of human desires, specifically within the context of marriage and fidelity.

Story of a Love Affair becomes an examination into these 2 characters, and interesting enough, to dwell on the problems that they face, in a somewhat lose-lose situation throughout their relationship. The first was when Giovanna served to be in the way of their coming together, being an in-between, and when that's settled, there's the other more pressing issue of whether they can elope successfully.

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