Caitlin’s Profile

“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni

“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni