Lies of Love

Lies of Love
Lies of Love
Directed by	Michelangelo Antonioni
Written by	Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring	Annie O'Hara
Cinematography	Renato Del Frate
Music by	Giovanni Fusco
Production; companies	Filmus; Edizioni Fortuna;
Release date	1949;
Running time	11 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

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]

Cast[edit]

Annie O'Hara
Sergio Raimondi
Sandro Roberti
Anna Vita

Release[edit]

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

Legacy[edit]

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[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Lies of Love at IMDb

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[Reihe_Film-1] Lenssen, Claudia; Jacobsen, Wolfgang; Schaub, Martin (1984). "L'amorosa menzogna. 1948/49". Michelangelo Antonioni. München, Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag.

[2] Craig, Benjamin (2018). Cannes - A Festival Virgin's Guide. Cinemagine Media Limited. p. 87.

[Fellini-3] "Charles Thomas Samuels/1971". Fecerico Fellini: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. 2006. p. 89.

[4] "Reinventing Neorealism: Antonioni's Documentaries of the 1940s and '50s". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

[5] "Short Films by Michelangelo Antonioni". BAMPFA. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

[6] "L'amorosa menzogna". Cinémathèque Française (in French). Retrieved 10 September 2023.

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v t e Films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Feature films	Story of a Love Affair (1950) I Vinti (1952) The Lady Without Camelias (1953) Le Amiche (1955) Il Grido (1957) L'Avventura (1960) La Notte (1961) L'Eclisse (1962) Red Desert (1964) Blowup (1966) Zabriskie Point (1970) Chung Kuo, Cina (1972) The Passenger (1975) The Mystery of Oberwald (1980) Identification of a Woman (1982) Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Short films	Gente del Po (1947) N.U. (1948) Lies of Love (1949) "Attempted Suicide" in Love in the City (1953) "The Screen Test" in The Three Faces (1965) "The Dangerous Thread of Things" in Eros (2004)