Lies of Love

1949 Italian film

Filmus
Edizioni Fortuna

Release date

1949 (1949)

Running time

11 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

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

^ ^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.