Dipping into 'Negative Space' by Manny Farber and find this:
“Antonioni’s speciality, the effect of moving as in a chess game, becomes an autocratic kind of direction that robs an actor of his motive powers and most of his spine ... Antonioni gets his odd, clarity-is-all effects from his taste for chic mannerist art that results in a screen that is glassy, has a side-sliding motion, the feeling of people plastered against stripes or divided by verticals and horizontals; his incapacity with interpersonal relationships turns crowds into stiff waves, lovers into lonely appendages, hanging stiffly from each other, occasionallly coming together like clanking sheets of metal but seldom giving the effect of being in communion.”
( p142)
and later on
“ Antonioni uses a wall or building as a menace” (p197)
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