Il mare

The excellent score for this first film of Giuseppe Patroni Griffi is by Giovanni Fusco, preferred composer of Michelangelo Antonioni. It was Antonioni's seminal 'L' Avventura' that created a new cinematic language without which Griffi's film would not have been possible. There are distinct echoes of Antonioni here with themes of ennui and the fundamental impossibility of relationships although the angst is tempered by touches of ironic humour.

The images of off-season Capri are beautifully captured by Enno Guarnieri whilst the principles perform with finesse.

An interesting piece which serves as an introduction to a director whose subsequently 'arty' output is never likely to be of universal appeal.