[New-Poetry] RIP Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)

[Anny Ballardini]

I met Michelangelo Antonioni. He was on a wheelchair. The exhausted I was I leaned my head on the seat in front (for a minute) and fell sound asleep. Woke up at the clapping of hands at the end of his movie with an horizontal cut in my forehead. Probably everybody noticed - first me falling asleep and then my face at the exit since there were only few people. It was a retrospective dedicated to Antonioni. His wife acted as if she was his nurse - even if he had a nurse, he was physically disastered. Among the cinema monsters (Bergman, Pasolini, the great Visconti) he was the one I less understood, even if I was privileged in meeting him and in witnessing his work from the very first "seats" I thought they were boring. My negligence probably, and /or incapacity. I anyhow feel a little lost, less protected. And terribly sorry - very sad. 
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