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Slow Moving Pictures

Lewis Beer

Long-form writing about films - I published a weekly series about Red Desert throughout 2025.

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Everything That Happens in Red Desert (52)

This post contains extended discussion of suicide.

The final moments of Red Desert make me think of Dar Williams’s ‘Mark Rothko Song’, and vice versa.1 The song begins by describing a visit to a museum, where the speaker reacts instinctive...

5 months ago
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Everything That Happens in Red Desert (51)

This post contains a spoiler for This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection.

The final scene of Red Desert revolves around two similar moments, in which Valerio detaches from his mother, explores his environment, and asks a question about i...

5 months ago
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Everything That Happens in Red Desert (50)

This post contains some discussion of suicide.

In the final two minutes of Red Desert, we see Giuliana as we saw her in the first scene: dressed in her green coat, out for a walk with Valerio.

After the intensity of the last few sequences...

5 months ago
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Everything That Happens in Red Desert (49)

In two separate interviews, Antonioni cited Camus’s prescription, from The Rebel, that an artist should be engaged in a ‘revolt against reality’ (or ‘actuality’).1 For Camus, this revolt entails a paradoxical rejection of and engagement wit...

6 months ago
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Everything That Happens in Red Desert (48)

This post contains some discussion of suicide.

In her final words to the Turkish sailor, Giuliana describes the mindset she intends to adopt from now on:

I have been ill, yes. But I shouldn’t think about it [non devo pensarci]. That is,...

6 months ago
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