il Grido

Before making the films that he would later be known for, Michelangelo Antonioni made this quiet, little post-neorealist film. Like his finest films, it's about alienation, though this one is more straightforward. It's about a man whose lover leaves him. Brokenhearted, he takes his young daughter and bascially begins to wander. It has that kind of Italian, minimalist poetry, though probably won't be canonized in the ranks of Antonioni's finest work. It's certainly worth a watch.