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Lies of Love

1949 Italian film

Lies of Love (Italian: L'amorosa menzogna) is a 1949 Italian short documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a group of people who pose for photo comics.[1]

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Cast

  • Annie O'Hara
  • Sergio Raimondi
  • Sandro Roberti
  • Anna Vita

Release

Lies of Love was screened at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Legacy

Antonioni used the research for his documentary for a story idea which was later adapted for Federico Fellini's film The White Sheik.[1][3] According to Fellini, Antonioni, although he received screen credit, was not involved in the writing of the screenplay.[3]

Lies of Love has been screened as part of retrospectives on Antonioni at various festivals and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art,[4] the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,[5] and the Cinémathèque Française.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Lenssen, Claudia; Jacobsen, Wolfgang; Schaub, Martin (1984). "L'amorosa menzogna. 1948/49". Michelangelo Antonioni. München, Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag.
  2. [2]
    Craig, Benjamin (2018). Cannes - A Festival Virgin's Guide. Cinemagine Media Limited. p. 87.
  3. [3]
    "Charles Thomas Samuels/1971". Fecerico Fellini: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. 2006. p. 89.
  4. [4]
    "Reinventing Neorealism: Antonioni's Documentaries of the 1940s and '50s". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Short Films by Michelangelo Antonioni". BAMPFA. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  6. [6]
    "L'amorosa menzogna". Cinémathèque Française (in French). Retrieved 10 September 2023.


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