science fiction landscape dotted with structures that are both disorienting and full of possibilities." In The Daily Telegraph in 2012, Robbie Collin wrote that Antonioni's "bold, modernist angles and thrillingly innovative use of colour (he painted trees and grass to tone with the industrial landscape) make every frame a work of art". Richard Brody of The New Yorker viewed the approach to color as "greatly responsible for the film's emotional and intellectual power" and argued, "The characters in his movies seem thin because their environment is developed so thickly; yet that environment, he suggests, is, though exterior to them, an inextricable part of them." The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Red Desert as one of his favorite films. References Bibliography External links Red Desert: In This World – an essay by Mark Le Fanu at The Criterion Collection 1964 films 1964 drama films 1960s Italian-language films Adultery in films Films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Films produced by Angelo Rizzoli Films scored by Giovanni Fusco Films shot in Sardinia Films with screenplays by Tonino Guerra French drama films Golden Lion winners Italian drama films 1960s Italian films 1960s French films