Michelangelo Antonioni Overview

Biography

Michelangelo Antonioni began writing about film as a student at Bologna University, mercilessly criticizing the Italian comedies of the 1930s. In 1940, he studied direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and two years later co-wrote the scenario for "Un piloto ritorna" with director Roberto Rossellini before working as an assistant director on films directed by Enrico Fulchignoni...