finally saw the complete Antonioni trilogy, "L'Avventura," "La Notte," & "L'Eclisse." (1960. 1961, 1962) Highly atmospheric, mysterious & (seemingly) directionless, often beautiful to observe but probably, for viewers in 2026, too possessed of a European/existentialist languor to be emotionally engaging. in each self-consciously stylized film a female figure moving about in a landscape or cityscape as if mesmerized by what she sees would seem to be Antonioni's homage to the ineffable power of the visual no doubt shared by all filmmakers; Fellini does this also, & notably in the US Scorsese, but it is human faces that most mesmerize these directors while for Antonioni & Bertolucci it is cityscapes--walls, shadows, windows, rooftops, high-rise apartment buildings & the spaces between them, street lights, windblown leaves & clouds.