Lies of Love
Directed byMichelangelo Antonioni
Written byMichelangelo Antonioni
StarringAnnie O'Hara
CinematographyRenato Del Frate
Music byGiovanni Fusco
Production
companies
  • Filmus
  • Edizioni Fortuna
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

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

  • 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 2 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.
  3. 1 2 "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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